Serge Reggiani - Apollinaire - Under Mirabeau bridge

Serge Reggiani's version

Original Title: "Sous le pont Mirabeau"
Text: Guillaume Apollinaire
Music: Léo Ferré
Year: 1953 (Léo Ferré's version),1972 (Reggiani's version)

Under Mirabeau bridge flows the Seine
So does our loves
Must I remember it
Joy always comes after sorrow

Come the night the hour rings
The days go away I remain

Hands in hands let's keep facing one another
While under the bridge
of our arms pass
Of eternal gazes the wave is so weary

Come the night the hour rings
The days go away I remain

Love goes away like that running water
Love goes away
How slow life is
And how violent hope is

Come the night the hour rings
The days go away, I remain

Pass the days and pass the weeks
Nor time passed
Nor loves come back
Under Mirabeau bridge flows the Seine

Come the night the hour rings
The days go away I remain

Léo Ferré's version:


Yvette Giraud's version: