Lucette Raillat - La môme aux boutons versuri traducere în engleză

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The button gal

She was running her small business
Close to Pont des Arts
People could see the poor gal
Early in the morning and late at night
With a very gentle smile
She would offer, with her little hand
Little pretty buttons for pants
That she would sell for just a few cents
 

She is the button gal
The pants button gal
Poor pale gal
Who vended without fuss
Who vended buttons
To save–what an apostle–
All the others' pants
And earn her living
 

She had buttons of all colors
Of all sizes, of all shapes
She had humongous black ones
And small white ones with flowers
She even had transparent ones
With idyllic reflections
She also had metallic ones
That would quickly come apart
 

She is the button gal
The pants button gal
Poor pale gal
Who vended without fuss
Who vended buttons
For the silk of fashion-conscious belles
Or the fabric of light shirts
Button taine-ton-ton
 

But, alas, the fate of the button
Is similar to that of the roses
Poor flowers that, barely bloomed
Are teased by the bumblebee
She gave her heart and her flesh
To a seemingly nice dude
But who one day confessed cynically
- I'm into slide fasteners!
 

And the button gal
The pants button gal
Poor pale gal
Lost all reason
Lost all reason
In front of the dreadful dilemma
To leave the one she loves
Or betray her buttons
 

Her life became a drama then
Nightmares haunted her mind
So much so she got chickenpox
And had zits all over her body
But he, mercilessly, continued
His zipper business, and Claire
–Our worker was named Claire–
Claire, thus, felt she was about to break
 

And the button gal
The pants button gal
On a pale night
Died without ceremony
So, the dude thought it was good - good
Him, the man without tenderness
When the mass collection came around
To throw in a - oh!
 

To throw in a hundred francs bill
To celebrate this adventure properly
To throw in a hundred francs bill
Boy, was the priest ever happy - Bang!
 




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