Lyrics and translation Pete Seeger - Blow the Man Down (Live)
As
I
was
out
walkin'
down
paradise
street
Alors
que
je
marchais
dans
la
rue
du
paradis
To
me
way,
hey,
blow
the
man
down
À
ma
façon,
hey,
fais
tomber
l'homme
A
pretty
young
damsel
I
chanced
for
to
meet
J'ai
rencontré
une
jolie
demoiselle
Give
me
some
time
to
blow
the
man
down
Donne-moi
le
temps
de
faire
tomber
l'homme
She
was
round
in
the
counter
and
bluff
in
the
bow
Elle
était
ronde
au
comptoir
et
imposante
à
l'avant
So
I
took
in
all
sail
and
cried,
"Way
enough
now"
Alors
j'ai
tout
déployé
et
crié
"Assez
maintenant"
I
hailed
her
in
English,
she
answered
me
clear
Je
l'ai
saluée
en
anglais,
elle
m'a
répondu
clairement
"I'm
from
the
Black
Arrow,
bound
to
the
Shakespeare"
"Je
suis
de
la
Black
Arrow,
à
destination
du
Shakespeare"
So
I
tailed
her
my
flipper
and
took
her
in
tow
Alors
j'ai
pris
ma
pagaie
et
l'ai
prise
en
remorque
And
yard
arm
to
yard
arm,
away
we
did
go
Et
bras
de
vergue
à
bras
de
vergue,
nous
sommes
partis
But
as
we
were
a
going
she
said
unto
me
Mais
alors
que
nous
partions,
elle
m'a
dit
"There's
a
spankin'
full
rigger
just
ready
for
sea"
"Il
y
a
un
grand
voilier
prêt
à
prendre
la
mer"
That
spankin'
full
rigger
to
New
York
was
bound
Ce
grand
voilier
était
à
destination
de
New
York
She
was
very
well
mannered
and
very
well
found
Elle
était
très
bien
élevée
et
très
bien
trouvée
But
as
soon
as
that
packet
was
clear
of
the
bar
Mais
dès
que
ce
paquebot
a
dégagé
la
barre
The
mate
knocked
me
down
with
the
end
of
a
spar
Le
matelot
m'a
renversé
avec
le
bout
d'une
barre
As
soon
as
that
packet
was
out
on
the
sea
Dès
que
ce
paquebot
a
été
en
mer
It
was
devilish
hard
treatment
of
every
degree
C'était
un
traitement
diaboliquement
dur
à
tous
les
niveaux
So
I
give
you
fair
warning
before
we
belay
Alors
je
te
préviens
avant
de
terminer
Don't
never
take
heed
of
what
pretty
girls
say
Ne
prête
jamais
attention
à
ce
que
disent
les
jolies
filles
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1
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
2 The Three Butchers
3 Goodnight, Irene
4 Careless Love
5 Yankee Doodle
6 The Farmer Is the Man (Live)
7 The Tva Song
8 The Riddle Song
9 The Demi Song
10 Passing Through
11 Listen Mr. Bilbo
12 The Golden Vanity
13 Frankie & Johnny
14 Captain Jinks
15 Black and White
16 Abiyoyo
17 New River Train
18 The Keeper and The Doe
19 Stagolee
20 Black Girl
21 Alabama Bound
22 Jay Goulds Daughter
23 St.James Hospital
24 The Sinking of the Reuben James
25 Pretty Boy Floyd
26 Roll On Columbia
27 When I First Came to This Land
28 Oh, Susanna
29 The Wabash Cannonball
30 Cielito Lindo
31 Blow the Man Down (Live)
32 The Titanic Disaster
33 Skip to My Lou (Version 2) [Live]
34 Skip to My Lou
35 Clementine
36 Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
37 St. Louis Blues
38 House of the Rising Sun
39 I've Been Working on the Railroad
40 One Grain Of Sand
41 Banks of Marble
42 Go Tell Aunt Rhody
43 Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
44 State of Arkansas
45 Newspapermen
46 Midnight Special
47 Barbara Allen
48 River of My People
49 If I Had a Hammer
50 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
51 Over the Hills
52 The Big Rock Candy Mountain
53 On Top of Old Smokey
54 Old Dan Tucker
55 I Ride an Old Paint
56 Home On the Range
57 Down In the Valley
58 Buffalo Gals
59 Pretty Polly
60 John Henry
61 John Hardy
62 Jesse James
63 Wimoweh
64 Poor Boy
65 Shenandoah
66 The Fox
67 The Water Is Wide
68 Dink's Song
69 John Brown's Body
70 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
71 Summertime
72 Swanee River
73 Camptown Races
74 Birthday Polka
75 Open the Door
76 She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain
77 Redbird
78 Mary Wore a Red Dress
79 Little Sally Walker
80 Let Us Come In
81 Wonder What Tinya Can Do
82 Here We Go Luby-Loo.
83 Ha, Ha Thisaway
84 Going to Boston
85 Go in and Out the Window
86 Bob-a-Needle
87 Where are My Pajamas
88 Sweet Little Baby
89 Sweepy, Sweepy, Sweepy
90 Sam, the Whaler
91 Green Grass Grows All Around
92 Soon as We All Cook Sweet Potatoe
93 Declaration of Independence
94 Doctor Freud
95 Hard Travelin'
96 42 Kids
97 There Is Mean Things Happening in
98 Then We'll Have Peace
99 The Scaler
100 The Battle of Maxton Field
101 The Ballad of Sherman Wu
102 Teacher's Blues
103 Martian Love Song
104 The Wagoner's Lad
105 The Happy Whistler
106 Autherine
107 Little Girl, See Through My Window
108 Chalil Melody
109 Study War No More
110 Streets of Glory
111 Stranger's Blues
112 No Sir, No!
113 Sally My Dear
114 She Moves Through the Fair
115 The Trip We Took Over the Mountain
116 I'll Sing You a Love Song
117 Down in Carlisle
118 Fair St Margaret & Sweet William
119 Farmers Cursed Wife
120 Gypsy Davy
121 The Blue Tainted Fly
122 So Long It's Been Good to Know
123 The Wreck of the Ole 97
124 Sally Ann
125 Four Pence a Day (Live)
126 Vignid a Fremd Kind (Live)
127 Weave-Room Blues (Live)
128 Wood-Chopping Song (Live)
129 My Good Man
130 Swing Low, Sweet Chario
131 The Farmer's Curst Wife
132 The Girl I Left Behind
2 The Three Butchers
3 Goodnight, Irene
4 Careless Love
5 Yankee Doodle
6 The Farmer Is the Man (Live)
7 The Tva Song
8 The Riddle Song
9 The Demi Song
10 Passing Through
11 Listen Mr. Bilbo
12 The Golden Vanity
13 Frankie & Johnny
14 Captain Jinks
15 Black and White
16 Abiyoyo
17 New River Train
18 The Keeper and The Doe
19 Stagolee
20 Black Girl
21 Alabama Bound
22 Jay Goulds Daughter
23 St.James Hospital
24 The Sinking of the Reuben James
25 Pretty Boy Floyd
26 Roll On Columbia
27 When I First Came to This Land
28 Oh, Susanna
29 The Wabash Cannonball
30 Cielito Lindo
31 Blow the Man Down (Live)
32 The Titanic Disaster
33 Skip to My Lou (Version 2) [Live]
34 Skip to My Lou
35 Clementine
36 Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
37 St. Louis Blues
38 House of the Rising Sun
39 I've Been Working on the Railroad
40 One Grain Of Sand
41 Banks of Marble
42 Go Tell Aunt Rhody
43 Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
44 State of Arkansas
45 Newspapermen
46 Midnight Special
47 Barbara Allen
48 River of My People
49 If I Had a Hammer
50 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
51 Over the Hills
52 The Big Rock Candy Mountain
53 On Top of Old Smokey
54 Old Dan Tucker
55 I Ride an Old Paint
56 Home On the Range
57 Down In the Valley
58 Buffalo Gals
59 Pretty Polly
60 John Henry
61 John Hardy
62 Jesse James
63 Wimoweh
64 Poor Boy
65 Shenandoah
66 The Fox
67 The Water Is Wide
68 Dink's Song
69 John Brown's Body
70 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
71 Summertime
72 Swanee River
73 Camptown Races
74 Birthday Polka
75 Open the Door
76 She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain
77 Redbird
78 Mary Wore a Red Dress
79 Little Sally Walker
80 Let Us Come In
81 Wonder What Tinya Can Do
82 Here We Go Luby-Loo.
83 Ha, Ha Thisaway
84 Going to Boston
85 Go in and Out the Window
86 Bob-a-Needle
87 Where are My Pajamas
88 Sweet Little Baby
89 Sweepy, Sweepy, Sweepy
90 Sam, the Whaler
91 Green Grass Grows All Around
92 Soon as We All Cook Sweet Potatoe
93 Declaration of Independence
94 Doctor Freud
95 Hard Travelin'
96 42 Kids
97 There Is Mean Things Happening in
98 Then We'll Have Peace
99 The Scaler
100 The Battle of Maxton Field
101 The Ballad of Sherman Wu
102 Teacher's Blues
103 Martian Love Song
104 The Wagoner's Lad
105 The Happy Whistler
106 Autherine
107 Little Girl, See Through My Window
108 Chalil Melody
109 Study War No More
110 Streets of Glory
111 Stranger's Blues
112 No Sir, No!
113 Sally My Dear
114 She Moves Through the Fair
115 The Trip We Took Over the Mountain
116 I'll Sing You a Love Song
117 Down in Carlisle
118 Fair St Margaret & Sweet William
119 Farmers Cursed Wife
120 Gypsy Davy
121 The Blue Tainted Fly
122 So Long It's Been Good to Know
123 The Wreck of the Ole 97
124 Sally Ann
125 Four Pence a Day (Live)
126 Vignid a Fremd Kind (Live)
127 Weave-Room Blues (Live)
128 Wood-Chopping Song (Live)
129 My Good Man
130 Swing Low, Sweet Chario
131 The Farmer's Curst Wife
132 The Girl I Left Behind
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