Original Title: "Où est-il donc?"
Text: Carol and Decaye
Music: Scotto
Year: 1926
Some tell you about America
They have views you see in movies
They tell you "What a magnificent country
Our Paris is nothing next to that"
Those sales talk make you less shy
In short we leave to there
one day of blues
One more who with the empty belly
In New York will look for a dollar
Among the beggars and the exiled
The immigrants with a bruised heart
He will say regretting Paris:
Where is it, my mill of the Place Blanche
My tobacconist and my corner bistro
Every day for me it was Sunday
Where are they, the friends, the pals
Where are they all my old popular dances
Their popular waltz at the sound of the accordion
Where are they, all my meals without dough
With a cornet of chips for two pennies
Where are they then?
But Montmartre seems to be disappearing
Because already from season to season
From the Abbesses to the Place du Tertre
Our old houses are being demolished
On the waste grounds of the hillock
Big banks will soon birth
Where then will you do your somersaults
You the poor kids and street urchins
While regretting the times past
We will sing thinking to Salis
Monmartre your De Profundis
Where is it, my mill of the Place Blanche
My tobacconist and my corner bistro
Every day for me it was Sunday
Where are they, the friends, the pals
Where are they all my old popular dances
Their popular waltz at the sound of the accordion
Where are they, all my meals without dough
With a cornet of chips for two pennies
Where are they then?
Where are they all my old popular dances
Their popular waltz at the sound of the accordion
Where are they, all my meals without dough
When I was eating even without having a penny
Where are they then?
Version sung by Fréhel herself in the movie "Pepe le Moko":
