Chumbawamba - Smith & Taylor - translation of the lyrics into French
Chumbawamba Smith & Taylor

Chumbawamba - Smith & Taylor

Lyrics and translation Chumbawamba - Smith & Taylor




Smith & Taylor
Smith & Taylor
Built with lives
Construit avec des vies
Remembered in plans
Mémorisé dans les plans
A history of no ones
Une histoire de personne
For the glory of just one man
Pour la gloire d'un seul homme
Should Smith now fall
Si Smith devait tomber
Then Taylor takes his place
Alors Taylor prendrait sa place
We're measuring our progress
Nous mesurons notre progrès
By burying our waste
En enterrant nos déchets
Pyramids, palaces
Pyramides, palais
Railways and mills
Chemins de fer et usines
Viaducts, offices
Viaducs, bureaux
Pipelines and canals
Pipelines et canaux
Bells for the architect
Cloches pour l'architecte
Ringing through the land
Résonnant à travers le pays
A hundred honest men to wash
Cent hommes honnêtes pour laver
The ink stains from his hands
Les taches d'encre de ses mains
For the forging of words
Car la forge des mots
Comes easy as sleep
Est aussi facile que le sommeil
Stones for Smith & Taylor
Pierres pour Smith & Taylor
Their memories to keep
Pour garder leurs souvenirs
Every maiden voyage
Chaque voyage inaugural
Leaves a widow on the shore
Laisse une veuve sur le rivage
And every blessed spire
Et chaque flèche bénie
Sees the earth get its reward
Voit la terre recevoir sa récompense




Writer(s): Judith Abbott, Louise Watts, Alice Nutter, Darren Hamer, Nigel Hunter, Allan Whalley, Duncan Bruce, Neil Ferguson
Chumbawamba - A Singsong and a Scrap
Album
A Singsong and a Scrap
date of release
09-01-2007

1 Bankrobber
2 Walking Into Battle With the Lord
3 Laughter In a Time of War
4 The Land of Do What You're Told
5 You Can (Mass Trespass, 1932)
6 When Alexander Met Emma
7 Fade Away ( I Don't Want To)
8 Smith & Taylor
9 Bonus Track
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