Lyrics and translation Michael Head - Money, O!

Money, O!

Argent, ô!

When I had money, money O

Quand j'avais de l'argent, argent ô

I knew no joy till I went poor

Je ne connaissais pas la joie jusqu'à ce que je devienne pauvre

For many a false man as a friend

Car bien des faux amis

Came knocking all day at my door.

Venaient frapper à ma porte toute la journée.

Then felt I like a child

Alors je me sentais comme un enfant

That holds a trumpet

Qui tient une trompette

That he must not blow

Qu'il ne doit pas souffler

Because a man is dead

Parce qu'un homme est mort

I dared not speak to let this false world know

Je n'osais pas parler pour faire savoir à ce faux monde

Much had I thought of life

J'avais beaucoup pensé à la vie

And seen how poor man's

Et vu comment les cœurs des pauvres

Hearts are ever light

Sont toujours légers

And how their wives do hum like bees

Et comment leurs femmes bourdonnent comme des abeilles

About their work from morn till night

Autour de leur travail du matin au soir

So when I hear these poor ones laugh

Alors quand j'entends ces pauvres gens rire

And see the rich ones coldly frown

Et voir les riches froncer les sourcils froidement

Poor men think I need not go up

Les pauvres pensent que je n'ai pas besoin de monter

So much as rich men should come down

Autant que les riches devraient descendre

When I had money, money O

Quand j'avais de l'argent, argent ô

I knew no joy till I went poor

Je ne connaissais pas la joie jusqu'à ce que je devienne pauvre

For many a false man as a friend

Car bien des faux amis

Came knocking all day at my door

Venaient frapper à ma porte toute la journée

All Day, at my door.

Toute la journée, à ma porte.

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Album

Silent Noon

date of release

12-04-2005

1 Money, O!
2 Three Shakespeare Songs, op. 6: I. Come away death
3 The Aquiline Snub
4 The Wind Among the Reeds, op. 30: III. The Cloths of Heaven
5 English Lyrics, Set 6: III. Love is a bable
6 Captain Stratton's Fancy
7 Folksongs, Vol 3: V. The Foggy, Foggy Dew
8 Folksongs, Vol 1: VII. Oliver Cromwell
9 Folksongs, Vol. 1: I. The Salley Gardens
10 The Lord’s Prayer
11 The Shrophshire Lad: X. The lads in their hundreds
12 The Shrophshire Lad: IX. Into my heart an air that kills
13 The Shrophshire Lad: VIII. Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly
14 The Shrophshire Lad: VII. White in the moon the long road lies
15 The Shrophshire Lad: VI. On the idle hill of summer
16 The Shrophshire Lad: V. The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread
17 The Shrophshire Lad: IV. In summer-time on Bredon
18 The Shrophshire Lad: III. There pass the careless people
19 Three Shakespeare Songs, op. 6: II. Oh mistress mine
20 Three Shakespeare Songs, op. 6: III. Blow, blow thou winter wind
21 Elizabethan Songs: IV. Sleep
22 Salt-Water Ballads: I. Port of Many Ships
23 Salt-Water Ballads: II. Trade Winds
24 Salt-Water Ballads: III. Mother Carey
25 The Compleat Virtuoso
26 The Cloths of Heaven
27 Songs, op. 3: II. Now sleeps the crimson petal
28 Elizabethan Lyrics, op. 12: I. Weep you no more
29 English Love Lyrics, op. 24: III. Go, lovely rose
30 The Shrophshire Lad: I. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
31 The Shrophshire Lad: II. When I was one-and-twenty
32 The House of Life: II. Silent Noon

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