Original Title: "Paris ma rose"
Year: 1967
Pass the days and pass the weeks
Nor the time gone by nor the loves come back
Under the Mirabeau bridge runs the Seine.
Where has Paris my rose gone?
Paris over Seine the curly one?
Are gone taking the key away.
The nonchalants along the quays.
Paris my rose.
Where are they gone Villon and his girls?
Where is he gone Jenin the Void²
And the green path, what has become of it.
It that snaked near the Bastille?
Where is Paris the grey gone?
Paris over mist, the wet ?
It's gone Paris the forgotten.
Gone on tiptoe.
Paris the grey.
Where are they gone those who fraternize.
With the high walls and the graffitis?
Those suns of chalk where are they gone?
Which were making love to the walls of the churches?
Where is it gone Paris the red?
The commune of the barefeet
Got lost toward Aubervilliers
Or toward Nanterre, stuck in the mud.
Paris the red.
Where is he gone Clement of the cherries?
Is it closed the long pain.
Of the time when the guys had such a big heart
That one could only see him at the holes of the shirts?
Where is gone Paris I love?
Paris I love and which is no more.
²Jenin L'Avenu (character of poetry of Villon)
All songs by Reggiani.
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