Paroles et traduction Maurice Chevalier - Mandarinade

Mandarinade

MANDARINADE
Là-bas, tout au fond de la Chine
Vivait un puissant mandarin
En compagnie d' sa mandarine
Chinoise garantie bon teint
Le mandarin austère et grave
Avait pour nom Kéktufoula
Sa femme s'appelait Fleur-de-Nave
C'est pas courant mais c'est chinois
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Un jour, il partit en voyage
En laissant sa femme au logis
Et la belle au cœur très volage
S'amouracha d'un de ses coolies
C'était un Nippon fort bel homme
Malgré son p'tit air effacé
Il portait un nom à la gomme
Yamamoto Kakapoté
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Bien qu'il fut coolie agricole
Il n'avait rien d'un va-nu-pieds
Car il sortait d'une grande école
L'école des Nippons déchaussés
Un soir, au jardin, sous les branches
La mandarine se donna
Le Nippon s'en paya une tranche
Bien sûr, c'est jaune et ça n' sait pas!
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Au bout de neuf mois, elle fut mère
D'un amour de poupon nippon
Mais le père s'était fait la paire
L' coolie avait fait ses paqu'sons
Et quand, de retour de voyage,
Le mandarin vit le lardon
Il s'écria, bouillant de rage
Je suis un mandarin citron!
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Hélas le pauvre homme, ô supplice
Fut si frappé par ce coup là
Qu'il en attrapa la jaunisse
Seulement chez lui, ça se voyait pas
En effet soit dit sans malice
C'était vraiment du superflu
On peut se passer de la jaunisse
Quand on est chinois et cocu!
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Et voila l'histoire est finie
Et le pauvre Kéktufoula
Après une lente agonie
A rendu son âme à Bouddha
La mortalité se devine
C'est que, lorsqu'on est mandarin
Faut surveiller sa mandarine
Sans quoi l'on y trouve des pépins.
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Mandarinade

MANDARINADE
Far away, deep in the heart of China
Lived a powerful mandarin
In the company of his mandarin wife
A genuine Chinese beauty
The mandarin, austere and serious
Was named Kéktufoula
His wife was called Fleur-de-Nave
It's not common, but it's Chinese
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One day, he went on a journey
Leaving his wife at home
And the beauty, with a very fickle heart
Fell in love with one of his coolies
He was a very handsome Japanese man
Despite his meek appearance
He bore a silly name
Yamamoto Kakapoté
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Although he was an agricultural coolie
He was far from being a barefoot beggar
For he had graduated from a great school
The school of barefoot Japanese
One evening, in the garden, under the branches
The mandarin's wife gave herself to him
The Japanese man enjoyed a piece of her
Of course, it's yellow and it doesn't know!
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Nine months later, she became a mother
To a lovely little Japanese baby
But the father had disappeared
The coolie had packed his bags and left
And when, upon returning from his trip,
The mandarin saw the little bastard
He cried out, boiling with rage,
I am a cuckolded mandarin!
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Alas, the poor man, oh agony
Was so devastated by this blow
That he came down with jaundice
Only with him, it was not visible
Indeed, it must be said without malice
It was truly superfluous
One can do without jaundice
When one is Chinese and a cuckold!
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And so the story is over
And poor Kéktufoula
After a long agony
Gave up his soul to Buddha
His mortality is discernible
It's because, when one is a mandarin
One must watch over one's mandarin wife
Otherwise one finds oneself with problems.
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