Pete Seeger - Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter - translation of the lyrics into French

Lyrics and translation Pete Seeger - Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter




Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
La lettre de Madame Clara Sullivan
Dear Mister Editor, if you choose,
Ma chère Madame la Rédactrice, si vous le voulez bien,
Please send me a copy of the labor news;
Veuillez m'envoyer un exemplaire des nouvelles du travail ;
I′ve got a son in the infantry,
J'ai un fils dans l'infanterie,
And he'd be mighty glad to see
Et il serait très heureux de voir
That someone, somewhere, now and then,
Que quelqu'un, quelque part, de temps en temps,
Thinks about the lives of the mining men,
Pense aux vies des mineurs,
In Perry County.
Dans le comté de Perry.
In Perry County and thereabout
Dans le comté de Perry et ses environs
We miners simply had to go out.
Nous, les mineurs, avons simplement sortir.
It was long hours, substandard pay,
C'était de longues heures, un salaire inférieur à la moyenne,
Then they took our contract away.
Puis ils ont enlevé notre contrat.
Fourteen months is a mighty long time
Quatorze mois, c'est très long
To face the goons on the picket line
Pour faire face aux voyous sur la ligne de piquetage
In Perry County.
Dans le comté de Perry.
I′m twenty-six years a miner's wife,
Je suis la femme d'un mineur depuis vingt-six ans,
There's nothing harder than a miner′s life,
Il n'y a rien de plus dur que la vie d'un mineur,
But there′s no better man than a mining man,
Mais il n'y a pas de meilleur homme qu'un mineur,
Couldn't find better in all this land.
On ne pourrait pas trouver de meilleur dans tout ce pays.
The deal they get is a rotten deal,
L'accord qu'ils obtiennent est un accord pourri,
Mountain greens and gravy meal,
Des légumes verts de montagne et un repas de sauce,
In Perry County.
Dans le comté de Perry.
We live in barns that the rain comes in
Nous vivons dans des granges la pluie entre
While operators live high as sin,
Tandis que les exploitants vivent dans le péché,
Ride Cadillac cars and drink like a fool
Roulez en Cadillac et buvez comme un fou
While our kids lack clothes to go to school
Alors que nos enfants n'ont pas de vêtements pour aller à l'école
Sheriff Combs he has it fine,
Le shérif Combs, il s'en sort bien,
He runs the law and owns a mine
Il dirige la loi et possède une mine
In Perry County.
Dans le comté de Perry.
What operator would go dig coal
Quel exploitant irait creuser du charbon
For even fifty a day on the mine pay-roll!
Pour même cinquante dollars par jour sur la paie de la mine !
Why, after work my man comes in
Eh bien, après le travail, mon homme rentre
With his wet clothes frozen to his skin,
Avec ses vêtements mouillés collés à sa peau,
Been digging coal so the world can run
Il a creusé du charbon pour que le monde puisse tourner
And operators can have their fun
Et que les exploitants puissent s'amuser
In Perry County.
Dans le comté de Perry.
When folks sent money to the Hazard Press
Lorsque les gens ont envoyé de l'argent à la Hazard Press
To help the strikers in distress,
Pour aider les grévistes en détresse,
They gave that money, yours and mine,
Ils ont donné cet argent, le vôtre et le mien,
To the scabs who crossed the picket line,
Aux briseurs de grève qui ont franchi la ligne de piquetage,
And the state militia and F.B.I.
Et la milice de l'État et le FBI
Just look on while miners die
Regardez simplement pendant que les mineurs meurent
In Perry County.
Dans le comté de Perry.
I believe the truth will out some day
Je crois que la vérité finira par éclater un jour
That we′re fighting for jobs at decent pay.
Que nous luttons pour des emplois à un salaire décent.
We're just tired of doing without,
Nous en avons assez de nous passer de tout,
And that′s what the strike is all about,
Et c'est de cela que parle la grève,
And it helps to know that folks like you
Et cela aide de savoir que des gens comme vous
Are telling the story straight and true,
Racontez l'histoire de manière juste et vraie,
About Perry County
À propos du comté de Perry





Writer(s): Malvina Reynolds, Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger - Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Album
Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
date of release
03-05-2019

1 Which Side Are You On?
2 Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
3 Mrs. McGrath
4 Blue Mountain Lake
5 Little Boxes
6 Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
7 Where Have All the Flowers Gone
8 Guantanamera (Live)
9 Goodnight, Irene
10 Turn Turn Turn
11 We Shall Overcome
12 Hold On
13 Passing Through
14 Oleanna
15 Listen Mr. Bilbo
16 Letter to Eve
17 Foolish Frog
18 Estadio Chile
19 English is Cuh-Ray-Zee (English is Crazy)
20 Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
21 Black and White
22 Big Rock Candy Mountain
23 Abiyoyo
24 Guantanamera (Live at the Poor People's March on Washington, 1968)
25 The Half Hitch
26 Banjo Medley: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Cripple Creek / Ida Red / Old Joe Clark
27 Coal Creek March / Pay Day at Coal Creek / Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line
28 Mr. Rabbit
29 Ballad of Dr. Dearjohn
30 Didn't Old John Cross the Water / Michael, Row the Boat Ashore (Live)
31 Tina Sizwe (We the Brown Nation)
32 Nonesuch
33 Rambling Boy
34 Guardian Beauty Contest (Attila the Hun)
35 My Gallant Black Bess
36 Battle of New Orleans
37 Union Hoot: The Scabs Crawl In / We Pity Our Bosses Five / Keep That Line a-Moving / Join the Picket Line Today (Live)
38 Babevuya
39 OPA Shout
40 Carol of the Beasts (Burgundian Carol)
41 Sea Chanties: Boston "Come-All-Ye" (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) / New Bedford Whalers / The Bigler / Johnny Come Down to Hilo
42 Dinky Die (Live)
43 The Preacher and the Slave
44 Bottle Up and Go
45 In Tarrytown
46 Seneca Canoe Song (Kayowjajineh)
47 Moorsoldaten
48 Freiheit (Die Thälmann-Kolonne)
49 The Quiz Show
50 Star Spangled Banner / To Anacreon in Heaven
51 Don't Ask What a River Is For
52 Uncle Sam, Won't You Please Come Home to Guam
53 You Can All Join In: It Takes Everybody to Build This Land / Indian Deer Hunting / Yankee Doodle / Old Chisholm Trail / The Farmer is the Man / Erie Canal (Low Bridge) / John Henry (Live)
54 Strawberry Roan
55 I Never Will Marry
56 The Sinking of the Reuben James
57 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
58 Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
59 Puttin' on the Style
60 I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
61 When I First Came to This Land
62 All Mixed Up
63 The Popular Wobbly
64 My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song)
65 Goofing Off Suite: Opening Theme
66 Wasn't That a Time
67 A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
68 This Land Is Your Land (Live)
69 In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
70 Follow the Drinking Gourd
71 Down By the Riverside
72 House of the Rising Sun
73 Talking Atom
74 Go Tell Aunt Rhody
75 Quite Early Morning
76 My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
77 Midnight Special
78 John Riley
79 If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)
80 From Way Up Here
81 Deep Blue Sea
82 Banks of Marble
83 Shenandoah
84 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
85 Wimoweh
86 Dink's Song
87 Down In the Valley
88 One Grain Of Sand
89 Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
90 Barbara Allen
91 I Had a Rooster
92 A Little of This and That
93 Arrange and Rearrange
94 St. James Infirmary
95 The Death of Harry Simms
96 The Bells of Rhymney
97 To My Old Brown Earth
98 Talking Union
99 Well May the World Go
100 What Did You Learn In School Today?
101 The Water Is Wide
102 Of Time and Rivers Flowing
103 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
104 Hard Times in the Mill
105 Garbage
106 Living In the Country
107 Joe Hill
108 God Bless the Grass
109 If I Had a Hammer
110 Bourgeois Blues
111 Eight-Hour Day
112 Buffalo Gals
113 Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
114 Kumbaya
115 The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
116 Que Bonita Bandera
117 Suliram
118 Chorale from Beethoven's 9th Symphony
119 Lonesome Traveler
120 The Banks of Champlain
121 Talking Blues
122 No More Auction Block
123 Roll the Union On
124 Jam on Jerry's Rocks
125 Hard Travelling
126 Oh Worrycare
127 Viva La Quince Brigada
128 My Name is Lisa Kalvelage
129 Battle of Maxton Field
130 There's Better Things to Do
131 Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down
132 We'll All Be A-Doubling
133 Cristo Ya Nacio
134 How About You?
135 Greensleeves

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