Chumbawamba - A Fine Career - translation of the lyrics into French
Chumbawamba A Fine Career

Chumbawamba - A Fine Career

Lyrics and translation Chumbawamba - A Fine Career




A Fine Career
Une belle carrière
The councilor comes with his battered old suit
Le conseiller arrive avec son vieux costume usé
And his head all filled with plans
Et la tête pleine de plans
Says "It's not for myself, for the fame or wealth
Il dit : "Ce n'est pas pour moi, pour la gloire ou la fortune
But to help my fellow man."
Mais pour aider mon prochain."
Fist in the air and the first to stand
Le poing en l'air, le premier à se lever
When the Internationale plays
Quand l'Internationale joue
Says "We'll break down the walls of the old Town Hall
Il dit : "On va briser les murs de l'ancien hôtel de ville
And we'll fight all the lifelong day!"
Et on va se battre toute la vie !"
Ten years later where is he now?
Dix ans plus tard, où est-il ?
He's ditched all the old ideas
Il a abandonné toutes ses vieilles idées
Milked all the life from the old cash cow
Il a épuisé toute la vie de la vieille vache à lait
Now he's got a fine career
Maintenant, il a une belle carrière
Now he's got a fine career.
Maintenant, il a une belle carrière.




Writer(s): Neil Ferguson, Allan Whalley, Louise Watts, Judith Abbott
Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won
Album
The Boy Bands Have Won
date of release
03-03-2008

1 Lord Bateman's Motorbike
2 Refugee
3 To a Little Radio
4 When an Old Man Dies
5 Waiting for the Bus
6 Same Old Same Old
7 The Ogre
8 Charlie
9 Rip RP
10 Compliments of Your Waitress
11 You Watched Me Dance
12 Bury Me Deep
13 Sing About Love
14 (Words Flew) Right Around the World
15 A Fine Career
16 Fine Line
17 All Fur Coat & No Knickers
18 Word Bomber
19 I Wish That They'd Sack Me
20 Unpindownable
21 El Fusilado
22 Hull or Hell
23 Words Can Save Us
24 Add Me
25 What We Want
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Исполнитель Chumbawamba, альбом The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won.
The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won.
2008
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