Lyrics and translation Roger Miller - Guv'Ment
Well,
you
dad-gum
government
Eh
bien,
ce
gouvernement
maudit
You
sorry
so
'n'
so's
Vous,
ces
vauriens
You
got
your
damn
hands
in
every
pocket
Vous
avez
vos
sales
pattes
dans
toutes
les
poches
Of
my
clothes
De
mes
vêtements
Well
you
dad-gum,
dad-gum,
dad-gum
government
Eh
bien,
ce
gouvernement
maudit,
maudit,
maudit
Oh
don't
you
know
Oh,
ne
le
sais-tu
pas
?
Oh
don't
you
love
'em
sometimes
Oh,
ne
les
aimes-tu
pas
parfois
?
Well
you
dad-gum
government
Eh
bien,
ce
gouvernement
maudit
You
better
pay
attention
Tu
ferais
mieux
de
faire
attention
You're
sittin'
up
there
like
a
fool's
convention
Tu
es
assis
là-haut
comme
une
convention
de
fous
Well
you
dad-gum,
dad-gum,
dad-gum
government
Eh
bien,
ce
gouvernement
maudit,
maudit,
maudit
Oh
don't
you
know
Oh,
ne
le
sais-tu
pas
?
Oh
don't
you
love
'em
sometimes
Oh,
ne
les
aimes-tu
pas
parfois
?
Well
you
soul
selling
no-good
Eh
bien,
vous,
vendeurs
d'âmes
sans
valeur
Son-of-a-shoe-fittin'
firestarters
Fils
de
merde
qui
allument
des
incendies
I
ought
to
tear
your
no
good
Je
devrais
arracher
ton
sale
Perambulatory
bone
frame
Squelette
ambulant
And
nail
it
to
your
government
walls
Et
le
clouer
sur
vos
murs
gouvernementaux
All
of
you,
you
Bastards
Tous
vous,
vous,
les
salauds
You
da-gum
government
Ce
gouvernement
maudit
You
sorry
rackafratchits
Vous,
ces
vauriens
de
troisième
ordre
You
got
yourself
an
itch
a
Vous
avez
une
démangeaison
à
And
you
want
me
to
scratch
it
Et
vous
voulez
que
je
la
gratte
Well
you
dad-gum,
dad-gum,
dad-gum
government
Eh
bien,
ce
gouvernement
maudit,
maudit,
maudit
Of
don't
you
know
Oh,
ne
le
sais-tu
pas
?
Oh
don't
you
love
'em
sometime
Oh,
ne
les
aimes-tu
pas
parfois
?
Well
you
soul
selling
no-good
Eh
bien,
vous,
vendeurs
d'âmes
sans
valeur
Son-of-a-shoe-fittin'
firestarters
Fils
de
merde
qui
allument
des
incendies
I
ought
to
tear
your
no
good
Je
devrais
arracher
ton
sale
Perambulatory
bone
frame
Squelette
ambulant
And
nail
it
to
your
government
walls
Et
le
clouer
sur
vos
murs
gouvernementaux
All
of
you,
you
Bastards
Tous
vous,
vous,
les
salauds
Well,
you
dad-gum
government
Eh
bien,
ce
gouvernement
maudit
You
sorry
so
'n'
so's
Vous,
ces
vauriens
You
got
your
damn
hands
in
every
pocket
Vous
avez
vos
sales
pattes
dans
toutes
les
poches
Of
my
clothes
De
mes
vêtements
Well
you
dad-gum,
dad-gum,
dad-gum
government
Eh
bien,
ce
gouvernement
maudit,
maudit,
maudit
Oh
don't
you
know
Oh,
ne
le
sais-tu
pas
?
Oh
don't
you
love
'em
sometimes
Oh,
ne
les
aimes-tu
pas
parfois
?
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2 Atta Boy Girl
3 Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
4 Walkin' In the Sunshine
5 Little Green Apples
6 Home
7 Heartbreak Hotel
8 Where Have All the Average People Gone
9 What I'd Give to Be the Wind
10 Lock, Stock and Teardrops
11 Boeing Boeing 707
12 You're My Kingdom
13 My Pillow
14 Husbands and Wives
15 Train of Life
16 Jason Fleming
17 Dad Blame Anything A Man Can't Quit
18 When a House Is Not a Home
19 My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died
20 You Don't Want My Love
21 When Two Worlds Collide
22 Absence
23 I've Been A Long Time Leavin' (But I'll Be A Long Time Gone) - Single Version
24 Swiss Cottage Place
25 Ruby (Don't Take Your Love To Town)
26 A Million Years Or So
27 The Best Of All Possible Worlds
28 Old Toy Trains
29 Invitation To The Blues
30 Tall Tall Trees
31 Don't We All Have The Right
32 Sorry Willie
33 Ain't That Fine
34 That's The Way I Feel
35 Chug-a-Lug
36 Half A Mind
37 Lou's Got The Flu
38 What Would My Mama Say
39 Old Friends
40 Kansas City Star
41 The Moon Is High (And So Am I)
42 It Takes All Kinds To Make A World
43 Reincarnation
44 Hard Headed Me
45 Do-Wacka-Do
46 Our Hearts Will Play The Music
47 King of the Road
48 England Swings
49 Guv'Ment
50 Engine, Engine # 9
51 As Long As There's A Shadow
52 You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd
53 Big Harlan Taylor
54 The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me
55 Me And Bobbie McGee
56 It Happened Just That Way
57 Dang Me
58 Poor Little John
59 A Man Like Me
60 Pardon This Coffin/Bonus Track: Session Soundbite (1995 Box Set Version)
61 Less and Less (1991 Compilation Version)
62 So Saith He the Lord (Original Demo Version)
63 A World So Full Of Love - Original Demo Version
64 The Ballad of Waterhole #3 (Code of the West) [Single Version]
65 Treat Me Like a Human
66 What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings)
67 Hoppy's Gone
68 Orange Blossom Special (Live, Reno 1978)
69 River In The Rain - 1995 Box Set Version
70 The Wrong Kind of Girl
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