Le Pere Magloire - Negresses Vertes, Les

Idiot, fou, epileptique Idiot, fool, epileptic

Grand-pere Magloire Grandpa Myglory

Ne suce pas de l'eau qui pique doesn't suck the water that stings

Le Perrier lui file des aigreurs Perrier gives him heartburn

Grand-pere Magloire a mal au coeur Grandpa Myglory is sick at heart

C'est ainsi qu'il perd la raison It's thus that he loses reason

Quand grand-pere arrete de boire When grandpa stops drinking

Ce cochon se transforme This bastard turns into an

en vieux con an old asshole



Non, non grand-pere No, no grandpa

Ne t'mets pas en colere Don't get angry

Bois un canon, Drink a cannon

Dans le fond t'as p'tet raison. At the bottom you're maybe right.

L'eau t'rend fada, Water makes you barmy

Grincheux et pas sympa, grumpy and not nice

Mais tu radotes But you talk a load of drivel

Quand tu pisses dans tes bottes. When you piss in your boots.



Idiot, fou, epileptique, Idiot, fool, epileptic

Grand-pere Magloire Grandpa Myglory

Si il touche a la badouwa If he touches the sparkling water

Le grand-pere Magloire a mal au foie Grandpa is sick in the liver

C'est ainsi qu'il deraisonne It's thus that he loses reason

Quand grand-pere stoppe de cuver When grandpa's off the wine

Il ne r'connait plus personne He no longer recognizes anyone

Et c'est bubonne qu'il bastonne It's the wifey that he starts hitting



Non, non grand-pere No, no grandpa

Ne t'mets pas en colere Don't get angry

Bois un canon, Drink a cannon,

Dans le fond t'as p'tet raison. At the bottom you're maybe right.

L'eau t'rend fada, Water makes you barmy

Grincheux et pas sympa, grumpy and not nice

Mais tu radotes But you talk a load of drivel

Quand tu pisses dans tes bottes. When you piss in your boots.



Idiot, fou, epileptique Idiot, fool, epileptic

Grand-pere Magloire Grandpa Myglory

A un medecin pas catholique has a weird doctor

Qui lui ordonne du valium who puts him on Valium

Grand-pere Magloire n'est plus Grandpa Myglory is no longer

un homme a man

Mais v'la l'Beaujolpif nouveau But look, some cheap wine

Grand-pere craque et boit un verre Grandpa cracks and drinks a glass

On l'fout en maison de repos Off he goes to a convalescent home

Les psychiatres lui font la peau The psychiatrists get his ass



Non, non grand-pere No, no grandpa

Ne t'mets pas en colere Don't get angry

Bois un canon, Drink a cannon,

Dans le fond t'as p'tet raison. At the bottom you're maybe right.

L'eau t'rend fada, Water makes you barmy

Grincheux et pas sympa, grumpy and not nice

Mais tu radotes But you talk a load of drivel

Quand tu pisses dans tes bottes. When you piss in your boots.



Idiot, fou, epileptique, Idiot, fool, epileptic

Pov'grand-pere, Poor grandpa

La loi est meurtriere The law is a murderer

J'leve mon canon I raise my cannon

A toi et mort aux cons. to you and death to the bastards.

Vive la java Long live the java waltz

Et les blouses blanches basta And the white coats basta

Et l'on radote, And one prattles on

En chialant un vieux pote, while blubbering an old jar

Idiot, fou, epileptique. Idiot, fool, epileptic