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valerief

(53,235 posts) Tue Sep 25, 2012, 10:29 AM Sep 2012

Bonjour. Je ne parle pas français. Can you help me understand these lyrics? [View all]

Hier, someone posted this fun clip here.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=199241

I found the lyrics in French, but Google Translate can't tell me what ye-ye means. Qu'est-ce que c'est "ye-ye"? Merci.

Ni les tams-tams des yé-yé-yé-é
Ni les gris-gris que tu portais
Da doo ron ron que tu écoutais
Au bal doum doum où tu dansais

Non rien n'aura raison de moi
J'irai chercher ma Lolita
Chez les yé-yé

Sous les tams-tams des yé-yé-yé-é
Je ferai du ramdam je me connais
Oui à Sing-Sing je finirai
J'ai un coupe-coupe à cran d'arrêt

Non rien n'aura raison de moi
J'irai chercher ma Lolita
Chez les yé-yé

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Neither the tom-toms of yé-yé-yé-e
Or amulets that you wore
Da doo ron ron you listening
Doum doum the ball where you danced

Nothing will not because of me
I'll get my Lolita
In yé-yé

Under the tom-toms of yé-yé-yé-e
I will make the fuss I know
Yes to Sing-Sing I'll finish
I have a machete flick

Nothing will not because of me
I'll get my Lolita
In yé-yé

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Bonjour. Je ne parle pas français. Can you help me understand these lyrics? [View all] valerief Sep 2012 OP

Ye' Ye' is a style of singing DavidL Sep 2012 #1

Merci beaucoup! nt valerief Sep 2012 #2

The ultimate Serge Gainsbourg video: ucrdem Jan 2013 #3

p.s. embedding disabled, whoops. ucrdem Jan 2013 #4

Cheese-free remix, très elegant: ucrdem Jan 2013 #5

I like the cheesy version better. Here's another clip a decade later. valerief Jan 2013 #6

Incroyable. ucrdem Jan 2013 #7

I know! And that dancer is all sweaty but STILL probably smells better than Serge. Ha. nt valerief Jan 2013 #8

nice song coucouza Dec 2013 #9