Chumbawamba - Lord Bateman's Motorbike - translation of the lyrics into French
Chumbawamba Lord Bateman's Motorbike

Chumbawamba - Lord Bateman's Motorbike

Lyrics and translation Chumbawamba - Lord Bateman's Motorbike




Lord Bateman's Motorbike
La moto de Lord Bateman
Lord Bateman runs an inn out on the A65
Lord Bateman dirige une auberge sur l'A65
Sort of place where everybody drinks before they drive
Le genre d'endroit où tout le monde boit avant de conduire
Weekends runs a motorbike to Scarborough and back
Les week-ends, il prend sa moto pour aller à Scarborough et revenir
He's not too many brandies from a second heart attack
Il n'est pas très loin d'une deuxième crise cardiaque
John Barleycorn he works the land and drinks at Bateman's Inn
John Barleycorn travaille la terre et boit à l'auberge de Bateman
And every evening toasts to all the things that might have been
Et chaque soir, il porte un toast à tout ce qui aurait pu être
Tells the world that once he had a trial for Hull KR
Il raconte au monde qu'il a déjà passé un essai pour Hull KR
Now he watches them on TV in the corner of the bar
Maintenant, il les regarde à la télé dans un coin du bar
Bateman gets up early lifts the latches on the gate
Bateman se lève tôt, ouvre les loquets de la barrière
Seven horses stabled and the family sleeping late
Sept chevaux à l'écurie et la famille qui dort encore
Fourteen hundred acres two daughters and a son
Quatorze cents acres, deux filles et un fils
He'll ride the eastern coast and back before the morning's done
Il fera le tour de la côte est et reviendra avant la fin de la matinée
Barleycorn he's up at dawn and working off the beer
Barleycorn se lève à l'aube et travaille pour se débarrasser de la bière
Same thing every day of every week of every year
La même chose tous les jours de chaque semaine de chaque année
Hears Lord Bateman racing by along the county lanes
Il entend Lord Bateman foncer sur les routes de campagne
And pulls his jacket tight against the coming of the rain...
Et il resserre sa veste contre la pluie qui s'annonce...
Lord Bateman meets the storm that's coming in from the shore
Lord Bateman rencontre la tempête qui vient du rivage
Speeding over Quarry Hill at 85 or more
Il fonce sur Quarry Hill à plus de 85
There's rain to take the wheels away rain among the glass
Il y a de la pluie pour emporter les roues, de la pluie parmi les éclats de verre
And rain to wash the blood into the tarmac and the grass
Et de la pluie pour laver le sang sur le bitume et l'herbe
In the months to come John Barleycorn he sits and drinks his fill
Dans les mois qui suivront, John Barleycorn s'assoira et boira jusqu'à plus soif
Measures out his life between his pocket and the till
Il mesurera sa vie entre sa poche et la caisse
So down the generations Bateman's son behind the bar
Alors, au fil des générations, le fils de Bateman sera derrière le bar
While Barleycorn he sips his beer and watches Hull KR.
Pendant que Barleycorn sirotera sa bière et regardera Hull KR.




Writer(s): Judith Abbott, Neil Ferguson, Louise Watts, Allan Whalley
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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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.
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