Slim Dusty - Happy Jack - translation of the lyrics into French

Happy Jack - Slim Dustytranslation in French




Happy Jack
Happy Jack
I once knew a feller, a travelling mate, not bad as fellers go,
Je connaissais un type, un compagnon de voyage, pas mauvais comme les autres,
He was happiest when he was miserable if ever that could be so,
Il était le plus heureux quand il était malheureux, si jamais cela pouvait être,
He'd wake up every mornin' with the world upon his back,
Il se réveillait chaque matin avec le monde sur le dos,
And so for the want of a better name we called him Happy Jack.
Et donc, faute de mieux, on l'appelait Happy Jack.
If ever you travelled on outback tracks as most us sometimes do,
Si jamais tu as voyagé sur des pistes désertiques, comme la plupart d'entre nous parfois,
With anxious eyes on the petrol gauge in the hope it would see you through,
Avec des yeux anxieux sur la jauge d'essence dans l'espoir qu'elle te fasse tenir,
You're a 100 miles from nowhere and eighty still to go,
Tu es à 100 miles de nulle part et à 80 encore à parcourir,
You'll hear his voice like the crack of doom "The petrol's gettin' low",
Tu entendras sa voix comme le tonnerre "L'essence est basse",
And when you're out on the Black Soul flats and you know what some rain can do,
Et quand tu es sur les plaines de Black Soul et que tu sais ce que la pluie peut faire,
You hope for the best as you head for the west, then you whisper a prayer or two,
Tu espères le meilleur en te dirigeant vers l'ouest, puis tu chuchotes une prière ou deux,
And just when you're halfway over and starting to breath again,
Et juste quand tu es à mi-chemin et que tu commences à respirer à nouveau,
You say with sigh and a mournful eye "I think we're in for rain."
Tu dis avec un soupir et un regard triste "Je pense que nous allons avoir de la pluie".
And when on a long and lonely run with nothing in between,
Et quand, sur une longue et solitaire route sans rien entre deux,
The town you left is away in the past the next one a distant dream,
La ville que tu as quittée est derrière toi, la prochaine est un rêve lointain,
He'll prick up his ears and listen and then in accents low,
Il dressera les oreilles et écoutera, puis d'une voix basse,
"I don't like the noise she's makin' boss, the diff's about to go."
"Je n'aime pas le bruit qu'elle fait, patron, le différentiel est sur le point de lâcher."
When you've bumped over corrugations, so deep you could bury a cow,
Lorsque tu as heurté des ondulations si profondes qu'on pourrait y enterrer une vache,
You say to yourself "It's pretty bad but the worst must be over now."
Tu te dis "C'est assez mauvais, mais le pire doit être passé".
Then he'll look at you with a woeful look and furrows on his brow,
Alors il te regardera avec un air lugubre et des rides sur le front,
The last fifty miles on the road they say is "the worst in Australia now."
Les 50 derniers kilomètres de la route, ils disent que c'est "le pire en Australie maintenant".
Oh I wonder where he is today, this travelling mate I had,
Oh, je me demande il est aujourd'hui, ce compagnon de voyage que j'avais,
Where ever he is it's safe to say "That things are really bad.
qu'il soit, on peut dire sans risque "Les choses sont vraiment mauvaises".
If it's not the diff it's something else or the petrol's gettin' low."
Si ce n'est pas le différentiel, c'est autre chose ou l'essence est basse".
It's pounds to peanuts and that's a bet, something's about to go.
C'est sûr, c'est un pari, quelque chose est sur le point de lâcher.





Writer(s): David Gordon Kirkpatrick, Alexander Roland Cormack

Slim Dusty - Odds And Sods
Album
Odds And Sods
date of release
04-08-2017

1 A Certain Kind Of Gold
2 The Desert Lair
3 Where The Western Clouds At Sunset Turn To Gold
4 The New Australian Bushman
5 The Min Min Light
6 You Took The Joy Out Of Livin’
7 Slow Down
8 Night Watch Blues
9 Happy Jack
10 The Old Time Drovers Lament
11 A Rose Of Red
12 A Friend Indeed
13 Music My Dad Played To Me
14 You Can Never Do Wrong In A Mother's Eyes
15 Dinki-Di Aussie
16 If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here
17 Roadliner
18 Brigalow Bill
19 Song Of The West
20 Many Mothers
21 Country Livin'
22 I’ve Got That Lonesome Feeling
23 Guess Who Felt Silly?
24 The Ballad Of Henry Lawson
25 The Drunkard
26 Just Lovin’ You
27 Where The Desert Flowers Bloom
28 The Cunnin' Roo Shooter
29 Sniff The Digger’s Dog
30 Maple Sugar Sweetheart
31 Rodeo Riders
32 Big Time (Just Because You're In Deep Elem)
33 Last Train To Nowhere
34 Ah, Forget It
35 My Son
36 Little Old One Horse Pub
37 If I Only Had a Home Sweet Home
38 City Brother
39 Jesus Takes A Hold
40 Pay Day At The Pub
41 Way Out There
42 Mother's Wedding Band
43 I’ll Take Mine Country Style
44 Big Moon
45 The Boys Who Never Returned
46 Old Home Week
47 My Home On The Sunburnt Plains
48 If You Walk Out That Gate
49 I Don't Want No Woman Around
50 There's a Rainbow 'Round My Memories
51 Fair Dinkum
52 Wedding Bell Blues
53 No Good Baby
54 Aussie Doghouse Blues
55 If Those Lips Could Only Speak
56 Sunny Southern Sue
57 My Journey Home (It's Never The Same)
58 Hello & Goodbye
59 Silver Spurs
60 That's a Sad Affair
61 You Stepped Out of Line
62 Movin' Away
63 You've Got the Cleanest Mind
64 My Pal Alcohol
65 The Faded Coat Of Blue
66 Don't Laugh In The Face Of Father Time
67 Just Going Home
68 Life Is Like A River
69 This Chap Who Knows A Lot
70 The Ace Of Hearts
71 Don't Fool Around Anymore
72 Never Mind
73 Wild Rugged Land That I Love
74 The Rose In Her Hair
75 The Arajoel Waltz
76 Sweet Talking Girl
77 Return Of The Stockman
78 Leaning Post
79 Grasshopper Loose In Queensland
80 Highway Blues
81 Mother, The Queen Of My Heart
82 I Want A Pardon For Daddy
83 Train Whistle Blues
84 Leaving Only Dust
85 Sadness And I Wander Home
86 I Broke A Promise
87 Streets Of Sydney
88 Anywhere I Am
89 I’ll Come Around
90 My People
91 Spanish Pipe Dream
92 Talk About The Good Times
93 Althea
94 This Country Of Mine
95 Closest Thing To Freedom
96 You’re Still On My Mind
97 I Don't Sleep At Night
98 Redwing
99 Carry My Own Guitar
100 Goldrush Country
101 The Pub That Doesn'T Sell Beer
102 Kilometres Are Still Miles to Me
103 The Boxing Kangaroo
104 God Will Prevail
105 Where I'd Sooner Be
106 Larrikin’s Landing
107 Mad Joe The Fisherman
108 I Need To Find A Place
109 Mitchell Grass
110 The Drovers Are Back
111 Another Night In Broome
112 Morning Comes Early
113 Coming Down The Barkly
114 Daddy’s Girl
115 I Haven’t Changed A Bit
116 Teenage Country Style
117 I've Been Talking To Grannie
118 We’ll Have To Stick Together
119 Mississippi Delta Blues
120 You’d Better Be Waiting
121 The Decimal Currency Pub
122 The Sunset Years Of Life
123 Sweet Thang
124 I Heard The Bluebird Sing
125 Tiny Blue Shoe
126 Showers Of Blessings
127 Where The Golden Sliprails Are Down
128 Road Trains
129 Lonely, Lonesome Blues
130 The Happiest Days Of All

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