Billy Bragg - Between the Wars (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985) - translation of the lyrics into French




Between the Wars (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
Entre les guerres (Live à I Beam - San Francisco le 3 juin 1985)
I was a miner
J'étais mineur
I was a docker
J'étais dockworker
I was a railway man
J'étais cheminot
Between the wars
Entre les guerres
I raised a family
J'ai élevé une famille
In times of austerity
En période d'austérité
With sweat at the foundry
Avec de la sueur à la fonderie
Between the wars
Entre les guerres
I paid the union and as times got harder
J'ai payé l'union et comme les temps sont devenus plus durs
I looked to the government to help the working man
J'ai regardé au gouvernement pour aider l'homme qui travaille
But they brought prosperity down at the armoury
Mais ils ont ramené la prospérité à l'armurerie
We′re arming for peace my boys!
On s'arme pour la paix, mes amis!
Between the wars
Entre les guerres
I kept the faith and I kept voting
J'ai gardé la foi et j'ai continué à voter
Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand
Pas pour le poing de fer mais pour la main secourable
For theirs is a land with a wall around it
Car le leur est un pays avec un mur autour
And mine is a faith in my fellow man
Et le mien est une foi en mon prochain
Theirs is a land of hope and glory
Le leur est un pays d'espoir et de gloire
Mine is the green field and the factory floor
Le mien est le champ vert et l'usine
Theirs are the skies all dark with bombers
Le leur est un ciel sombre de bombardiers
And mine is the peace we knew
Et le mien est la paix que nous connaissions
Between the wars
Entre les guerres
Call up the craftsmen
Appelle les artisans
Bring me the draughtsmen
Amène-moi les dessinateurs
Build me a path from cradle to grave
Construis-moi un chemin du berceau au tombeau
And I'll give my consent
Et je donnerai mon consentement
To any government
À n'importe quel gouvernement
That does not deny a man a living wage
Qui ne refuse pas à un homme un salaire décent
Go find the young men never to fight again
Va trouver les jeunes hommes qui ne se battront plus jamais
Bring up the banners from the days gone by
Ramène les bannières des jours anciens
Sweet moderation
Douce modération
Heart of this nation
Cœur de cette nation
Desert us not, we are
Ne nous abandonne pas, nous sommes
Between the wars
Entre les guerres





Writer(s): Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg - Billy Bragg, Vol. 1
Album
Billy Bragg, Vol. 1
date of release
06-03-2006

1 Only Bad Signs
2 A Nurse's Life Is Full of Woe
3 Greetings To the New Brunette (Demo)
4 The Tracks of My Tears
5 There Is Power In a Union (Instrumental)
6 Deportees
7 Sin City
8 The Home Front
9 The Passion
10 Wishing the Days Away
11 Between the Wars (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
12 There Is Power In a Union (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
13 A Lover Sings (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
14 The Milkman of Human Kindness (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
15 The Saturday Boy (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
16 Jeane (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
17 Which Side Are You On (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
18 It Says Here (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
19 The Marriage (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
20 From a Vauxhall To a Velox (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
21 To Have and To Have Not (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
22 The Cloth (Version 2)
23 Love Gets Dangerous (Alternate Version)
24 This Guitar Says Sorry (Alternate Version)
25 The Cloth (Version 1)
26 Strange Things Happen (Alternate Version)
27 Ideology
28 The Marriage
29 Train Train
30 Honey, I'm a Big Boy Now
31 The Milkman of Human Kindness
32 Between the Wars
33 The World Turned Upside Down
34 Greetings to the New Brunette
35 Levi Stubbs' Tears
36 There Is Power in a Union
37 Help Save the Youth of America
38 The Warmest Room
39 Wishing the Days Away (Alternative Version)
40 The Clashing of Ideologies (Alternative Version)
41 Hold the Fort
42 The Internationale
43 I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
44 The Marching Song of the Covert
45 Blake's Jerusalem
46 Nicaragua Nicaraguita
47 The Red Flag
48 My Youngest Son Came Home Today
49 Introduction (Live)
50 Think Again (Live)
51 Chile Your Water Run Red Through Sewto - Live
52 Days Like These (DC Remix)
53 To Have and to Have Not - Live
54 There Is Power in a Union - Live
55 Joe Hill
56 This Land Is Your Land
57 Never Cross a Picket Line
58 A Change Is Gonna Come
59 It Says Here (Alternative Version)
60 Which Side Are You On
61 A Lover Sings (Alternative Version)
62 Back To The Old House
63 To Have and to Have Not
64 Richard
65 A New England
66 The Man in the Iron Mask
67 The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
68 Lovers Town Revisited
69 Love Lives Here
70 Speedway Hero
71 Loving You Too Long
72 The Man in the Iron Mask (Alternative Version)
73 A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
74 Fear Is a Man's Best Friend
75 It Says Here
76 A Miner's Life
77 Love Gets Dangerous
78 From a Vauxhall Velox
79 The Saturday Boy
80 Island of No Return
81 St. Swithin's Day
82 Like Soldiers Do
83 This Guitar Says Sorry
84 Strange Things Happen
85 A Lover Sings
86 It Must Be A River
87 Won't Talk About It
88 Talking Wag Club Blues
89 You Got The Power
90 The Last Time
91 The Myth of Trust

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