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Ne me demande pas

Je f'rai tout pour toi
M'acheter l'intégrale de Sardou
Me couper un doigt
Je te promets, je ferai tout
 
Pour toi, je veux bien
Habiter Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Lire Marx en latin
Sortir avec Julien Courbet
 
Si ça t'fait kiffer
Tu pourras m'appeler Titine
Je me f'rai tatouer
Le drapeau belge sur la poitrine
 
Pour toi, s'il le faut
Je travaillerai chez ManPower
Je march'rai sur l'eau
J'écouterai pousser les fleurs
 
Mais ne me demande pas
Non, ne me demande pas
Non, ne me demande pas
Non non non
Non, ne me demande pas
Non pas ça
Non, ne me demande pas
Ma main
 
Si c'est ton délire
Je chanterai au bal du loto
Je f'rai Casimir
J'imit'rai bien les animaux
 
Pour toi, si t'en pinces
Je porterai des mocassins
J'animerai à Reims
Des colloques sur Jean-Pierre Papin
 
J'irai même jusqu'à
Lire Voici sans cacher la couv'
Apprendre le finois
Emmener tes parents au Louvre
 
Si c'est ton crédo
J'appliquerai les lois d'la finance
Je f'rai d'la rando
J'm'abonnerai à "Cheminées d'France"
 
Mais ne me demande pas
Non, ne me demande pas
Non, ne me demande pas
Non non non
Non, ne me demande pas
Non pas ça
Non, ne me demande pas
Ma main
 
Si pour toi, ça l'fait
J'arrêterai la Danette vanille
J'mangerai du poney
Je ferai baptiser nos filles
Si t'y tiens vraiment
Plus jamais je regarde "La Boum"
J'prendrai un amant
Je te raconterai Pim Pam Poum
 
Mais ne me demande pas
Non non non
Ne me demande pas
Non, ne me demande pas
Non, ne me demande pas
Non, ne me demande pas
Non, ne me demande pas
 
Ma main, tu l'as déjà
Alors ne la lâche pas
Promets-moi
Sans anneau ni contrat
Tu seras tout pour moi
Je serai rien qu'à toi
Allez, tope là...
 
Translation

Don't ask me that

I'll do anything for you.
I could buy the complete Sardou1,
cut off one of my fingers.
Promise, I'll do anything.
 
For you, I'm willing
to live in Saint-Germain-en-Laye2,
read Marx in Latin,
hang out with Julien Courbet3
 
If you fancy it,
you can call me Titine4.
I'll have a Belgian5 flag
tatooed on my chest.
 
For you, if I must,
Ill get a job at ManPower.
I'll walk on water,
I'll listen to the flowers growing6
 
Still, don't ask for
no, don't ask for
no, don't ask for
no, don't ask for
no no no
no, don't ask for
no, not that
no, don't ask for
my hand in marriage.
 
If you're into that,
I'll sing at saturday night dances
I'll play Casimir7
I'll do good imitations of animal cries
 
For you, if you like those,
I'll wear mocassins.
I'll host in Reims8
symposiums on Jean-Pierre Papin9
 
I would even dare to
read Voici10 without hiding the cover,
learn Finnish,
visit the Louvre with your parents.
 
If that matches your beliefs,
I'll abide by the rules of economics,
I'll go trekking,
I'll get a subscription to "Chimneys of France"11
 
Still, don't ask for
no, don't ask for
no, don't ask for
no no no
no, don't ask for
no, not that
no, don't ask for
my hand in marriage.
 
If it does it for you,
I'll quit the vanilla-flavoured cream dessert
I'll eat poney meat
I'll have our daughters christened.
If you really want it,
I'll never watch "la Boum"12 again
I'll have an affair
I'll tell you moronic Disney stories
 
Still, don't ask for
no no no
don't ask for
no, don't ask for
no, don't ask for
no, don't ask for
no, don't ask for
 
my hand. You're already holding it,
so don't let go of it.
Promise me that,
without a ring or a contract,
you'll be my everything,
I'll be your only one.
Come on, give me five!
 
  • 1. Quite popular French songwriter, well known - and hated by some - for his right-leaning opinions
  • 2. A posh suburb of Paris
  • 3. A dull pain in the ass of a newsreader
  • 4. Might allude to the 1917 song made famous by Charlie Chaplin. "Titine" is a somewhat dated nickname for "Christine" or "Martine"
  • 5. Belgians are the conventional nitwits in a host of French jokes
  • 6. Apparently she doesn't fancy Cabrel either
  • 7. A kind of mauve-spotted orange dinosaur that was the main host of a hugely popular French kid show back in the 80's
  • 8. A city in northeastern France
  • 9. A former soccer star, famed for dragging soccer player IQ to a new low
  • 10. The epitome of French paparazzi gutter press
  • 11. Don't know if such a magazine actually exists, but I guess you got the idea...
  • 12. Iconic teen romance movie of the 80's, starring Sophie Marceau as she was 13. Not such a bad movie, if you ask me, but it has become a kind of symbol for cheesiness
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Clarika: Top 3
1.Les Patineurs
2.Bien mérité
3.Joker
Idioms from "Ne me demande pas"
1.a pain in the ass
2.A pain in the ass
3.à pinces
4.ask for a hand
5.Tope là !
Comments
GavinGavin
   Wed, 02/11/2016 - 15:23

Cute song - and video too!

The following are for the most part discussion as much as nitpicking:

"Sardou's ultimate collection" is good. Just for reference you could also have said "the complete (works of) Sardou"

Why not just "read Marx in Latin"? Although I guess it would have to be in translation as one assumes he wrote in German.

If you fancy*it*. It works better this time

Is there a joke in Titine? Je cherche après Titine

Haha Poor Frances!

Non pas ça - not just "No not that"?

Si pour toi, ça l'fait - You could be me more literal and more native at the same time with "If it does it for you"

relly => really

Think that's all - it reads pretty smoothly already :-)

RomaintRomaint    Sat, 05/11/2016 - 09:15

Merci beaucoup encore pour la traduction.. et encore plus pour les commentaires, forts utiles pour les non-francophones.

J'apprécie vraiment le boulot que tu fais.

A+

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