Lyrics and translation Jack Haley - If I Only Had a Heart (extended version)

If I Only Had a Heart (extended version)

Si j'avais seulement un cœur (version étendue)

When a man's an empty kettle

Quand un homme est une bouilloire vide

He should be on his mettle

Il devrait être sur ses gardes

And yet I'm torn apart

Et pourtant je suis déchiré

Just because I'm presumin'

Juste parce que je présume

That I could be a human

Que je pourrais être un humain

If I only had a heart

Si j'avais seulement un cœur

I'd be tender, I'd be gentle

Je serais tendre, je serais doux

And awful sentimental

Et terriblement sentimental

Regarding love and art

Concernant l'amour et l'art

I'd be friends with the sparrows

Je serais ami avec les moineaux

And the boy that shoots the arrows

Et le garçon qui tire les flèches

If I only had a heart

Si j'avais seulement un cœur

Picture me a balcony

Imagine-moi un balcon

Above a voice sings low

Au-dessus d'une voix qui chante bas

(Snow White)

(Blanche-Neige)

Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

Où es-tu, Roméo?

(Tin Man)

(L'homme de fer-blanc)

I hear a beat, how sweet!

J'entends un battement, comme c'est doux!

Just to register emotion, jealousy, devotion

Juste pour enregistrer l'émotion, la jalousie, la dévotion

And really feel the part

Et vraiment sentir le rôle

I could stay young and chipper

Je pourrais rester jeune et gai

And I'd lock it with a zipper

Et je le verrouillerais avec une fermeture éclair

If I only had a heart

Si j'avais seulement un cœur

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Writer(s): Arlen Harburg

Album

The Wizard of Oz: The Deluxe Edition

date of release

18-07-1995

1 The Jitterbug (outtake)
2 We're Off to See the Wizard (quartet)
3 If I Only Had a Brain (extended version)
4 We're Off to See the Wizard (trio)
5 If I Only Had a Heart (extended version)
6 Optimistic Voices
7 If I Only Had a Brain (unused dance music)
8 Optimistic Voices (alternate vocal arrangement)
9 Optimistic Voices (rehearsal demo)
10 Over the Rainbow (reprise) (outtake/alternate version)
11 Over the Rainbow (Alternate Take)
12 Over the Rainbow (partial take)
13 Follow the Yellow Brick Road / You're Off to See the Wizard
14 Come Out, Come Out…
15 It Really Was No Miracle
16 As Mayor of the Munchkin City
17 The Lullaby League
18 The Lollipop Guild
19 If I Only Had the Nerve
20 We're Off to See the Wizard (duo)
21 If I Were King of the Forest (extended version)
22 Cyclone (extended version)
23 Delirious Escape (extended version) / Delirious Escape Continued / End Title
24 I Hereby Decree
25 Fill-In Awards / I Was Floating Through Space / Balloon Ascension / Second Cheer
26 The Wizard's Exposé (extended version) / Emerald City Graduation Exercises
27 Cyclone (final film version)
28 Dorothy's Rescue (extended version)
29 March of the Winkies (extended version)
30 The Witch's Castle (extended version)
31 The Jitterbug's Attack (extended version)
32 The Haunted Forest (extended version)
33 On the Castle Wall (extended version)
34 Munchkinland Insert (alternate tag)
35 I'm Not a Witch (alternate version)
36 The Merry Old Land of Oz (orchestral angles)
37 The Lion's Confession (outtake/alternate arrangement)
38 Follow the Yellow Brick Road / You're Off to See the Wizard (orchestral angles)
39 Terrified Lion
40 End Title (alternate version)
41 Magic Smoke Chords
42 Crystal Gazing (extended version)
43 Leaving Home
44 Miss Gulch (extended version)
45 Farmyard (outtake)
46 Trouble in School (extended version)
47 I'm Not a Witch
48 Threatening Witch (extended version)
49 Change of the Guard (outtake) / Wizard's Exit
50 Sign on the Gate / The City Gates Open (extended version)
51 The Spell (extended version)
52 Poppies
53 The Lion's Confession (outtake)
54 Into the Forest of Wild Beasts
55 Bees & Tin Woodman Lament (partial outtake)
56 Witch on Roof (extended version)
57 The Apple Orchard (extended version)
58 The Cornfield
59 At the Gates of Emerald City (extended version)
60 The Jitterbug (choreography rehearsal)
61 Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead

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