Paroles et traduction Annie Cordy - Le Tango Du Chat

Le Tango Du Chat

Y avait un' fois sur un' toiture
Un matou de fort belle allure
Qui aimait d'façon délicate
Une chatte. (bis)
Le soir pendant des heur's entières,
Assis au bord de la gouttière,
En passant sa patt' sur son museau
Il la guettait amoroso,
Et quand ell' passait près d'lui
Tout doucement dans la nuit

R: Il faisait
Miaou
Tendrement
Miaou,
Et les chats du voisinage
En écoutant ce langage
Se disaient
Y a quéqu'chos' là-d'ssous.
Il faisait
Miaou,
Maramia,
Miaou,
Oh! la drôle de musique
Que font lorsqu'ils communiquent
Tous les minets et les matous,
Miaou!

R: Mais un beau soir, quelle infortune,
Avec un autre au clair de lune
Le chat aperçut son ingrate
Petit' chatte. (bis)
Le lendemain plein de tristesse,
Comme il lui disait: "Tu m'délaisses"
Ell' lui répondit l'air effronté:
"J'ai bien d'autres chats à fouetter."
Sortant ses griff's aussitôt
Tout en faisant le gros dos:

R: Il faisait
Miaou
Rageus'ment
Miaou,
Et les chats du voisinage
En écoutant ce langage
Se disaient
Y a quéqu'chos' là-d'ssous.
Il faisait
Miaou,
Maramia,
Miaou,
Oh! la drôle de musique
Que font lorsqu'ils communiquent
Tous les minets et les matous,
Miaou!

Le chat bouda près d'un' semaine,
Puis s'en revint le cœur en peine
Pour fair' ses excus's les plus plates
A sa chatte. (bis)
Mais comme il cherchait la cruelle!
Il apprit, horrible nouvelle,
Qu'un cuisinier, hélas l'avait fait
Cuire un beau soir... comme civet.
Apprenant ce coup fatal
Le chat crut se trouver mal .

R: Il faisait
Miaou
Tristement
Miaou,
Et les chats du voisinage
En écoutant ce langage
Se disaient
Y a quéqu'chos' là-d'ssous.
Il faisait
Miaou,
Maramia,
Miaou,
Oh! la drôle de musique
Que font lorsqu'ils communiquent
Tous les minets et les matous,
Miaou!

The Cat's Tango

Once upon a time, on a rooftop
A tomcat of great allure
Who loved a cat in a delicate way
A little cat. (bis)
In the evening for hours on end,
Sitting on the edge of the gutter,
Passing his paw over his nose
He would watch her amoroso,
And when she passed near him
All gently in the night

R: He would make
Meow
Tenderly
Meow,
And the cats in the neighborhood
Hearing this language
Would say
There's something going on here.
He would make
Meow,
Maramia,
Meow,
Oh! the strange music
That they make when they communicate
All the tomcats and mousers,
Meow!

R: But one beautiful evening, what misfortune,
With another in the moonlight
The cat saw his ungrateful
Little kitty. (bis)
The next day, full of sadness,
As he said to her: "You're leaving me"
She answered him with a cheeky air:
"I have many other cats to whip."
Taking out her claws at once
All the while making a big back:

R: He would make
Meow
Furiously
Meow,
And the cats in the neighborhood
Hearing this language
Would say
There's something going on here.
He would make
Meow,
Maramia,
Meow,
Oh! the strange music
That they make when they communicate
All the tomcats and mousers,
Meow!

The cat sulked for almost a week,
Then came back his heart in pain
To make his most abject excuses
To his kitty. (bis)
But as he searched for the cruel one!
He learned, horrible news,
That a cook, alas, had made it
Cook a beautiful evening... like stew.
Learning this fatal blow
The cat thought he might be sick .

R: He would make
Meow
Sadly
Meow,
And the cats in the neighborhood
Hearing this language
Would say
There's something going on here.
He would make
Meow,
Maramia,
Meow,
Oh! the strange music
That they make when they communicate
All the tomcats and mousers,
Meow!