Original title: "Âme te souvient-il"
Text: Paul Verlaine (1888)
Year: 1959
Soul, does it remember?Studio version:
Soul, does it remember at the bottom of paradise
From Auteuil's station and trains of long ago
bringing you everyday, coming from the chapel?
So long ago already! Yet how I remember
After the first words of good morning and welcome
My old arm in yours we were leaving that Auteuil
And under the trees filled with a kind music
Our discussion was often metaphysical
Oh your strong arguments, your coalman's faith
Not without some tendency, Oh so frank! to deny
But left so quickly at the first step of doubt!
And then we came back, more than slow, by road
A bit of the long way, at my place, at our place rather
to have lunch of hardly anything, lightly smoking quick and early
And hurry a long time a vague work
My poor child, your voice in the Bois de Boulogne!
Christine Sèvres' version (1968):
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