Translation of ''Aux Champs-Elysée'' by Joe Dassin

Song: Aux Champs-Elysée

Artist: Joe Dassin

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I was walking down the avenue, my heart open to the unknown 

I felt like saying hello to anyone 

Anyone, and it was you, I said whatever came to mind

Just talking to you was enough to win you over

At the Champs-Elysées, at the Champs-Elysées

In the sun, beneath the rain, at noon or midnight 

There's everything you desire at the Champs-Elysées

You told me ''I have a meeting place in a basement with some madmen 

Who live with a guitar in their hand, from night to morning.'' 

So I went along with you, we sang, we danced 

And we didn't even think of kissing 

Last night two strangers and this morning on the avenue, 

Two lovers completely dazed by the long night 

And of the Étoile à la Concorde, an orchestra with a thousand strings 

All the birds at daybreak sing of love 

Translation of ''Vade Retro '' by Joe Dassin

Song: Vade Retro

Artist: Joe Dassin

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If you sing nonsense*

It's a winner, you've found the method

In six months you're be in style

Don't think too much, vade retro**

I saw the little church

So close to the sweet tavern

It was the time of the cherries

Don't think too much, vade retro

The chorus, it's the same

Since the Greeks and the Ostrogoths

And we dance, we advance

Then go backwards like in a tango

We turn around, we return to the beginning

We watch the new wave leave

To the bottom of an old drawer

If your girlfriends wears the dresses

Fit for Cléo de Mérode

It's not for fun, it's the fashion

Don't think too much, vade retro

I saw the kings of petrol

Burning in Monte-Carlo

Hold on, it's just the roaring twenties

Don't think too much, vade retro

The chorus, it's the same

Since the Greeks and the Ostrogoths

And we dance, we advance

Then go backwards like in a tango

We turn around, we return to the beginning

We watch the new wave leave

To the bottom of an old drawer

Each has its ''belle époque''

For them, it's the rococo

For you, it's time to rock

Don't think too much, vade retro

*The phrase ''mon cul sur la commode" is used to indicate nonsense, so he's basically saying ''if you sing something that doesn't even make sense''.

**Vade retro means ''go back'' or ''step back'', which plays well with the dancing theme of the song.