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Duration: 03:55 minutes Upload Time: 2007-11-16 14:57:24 User: lightning49 :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day |
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Jacques Brel '60s world music chanson Brassens Barbara Ferre Vian Leonard Cohen Aznavour Gainsbourg Dylan Horses
Description: Brel opened his Farewell concert at the Olympia with this unrecorded song , a put-on about a horse seduced into being a man, made to act against it's nature, used, abused and finally abandonned , its masculinity all but destroyed by its seducer. In it we find a familiar Brellian attack on a woman who has failed him. Having two large front teeth called "horse teeth" and being teased about them often, we can imagine him answering the teasing with a claim to be a horse. We might also find clues as to why he was leaving the stage in this song, e.g. singing Ne Me Quitte Pas, he misses the silence of his life as a horse. The song is noted for Brellian word coinages such as dejumenté (un- mared), derrièrisé (hind feet-ized) and varieté (become a variety act), and the performance is lively, jumping, funny and sad. Many thanks to philipchek of YouTube and of Paris for suggesting I translate this song, spending much time and effort explaining the colloquialisms, invented words and spirit of this song. |
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| Rumozamonien ::: Favorites 2007-11-29 13:15:17 His lyrics are fantastic! __________________________________________________ | |
| gmlch ::: Favorites 2007-11-19 16:03:49 breathtaking __________________________________________________ | |
| worldtraveler75 ::: Favorites 2007-11-19 13:29:50 thank you again lightning49. __________________________________________________ | |
| madbassskills ::: Favorites 2007-11-18 12:32:21 a truly clever song, they let him keep his teeth __________________________________________________ | |
| pyke6 ::: Favorites 2007-11-17 02:27:21 Well put. __________________________________________________ | |
| Iddyboy ::: Favorites 2007-11-16 21:11:28 Great work as usual, lightning __________________________________________________ | |
| lightning49 ::: Favorites 2007-11-16 16:39:37 Well, he still has his teeth and he's going to use them. __________________________________________________ | |
| pyke6 ::: Favorites 2007-11-16 16:32:04 I have to say, if I were in the audience that night of his last performance, this song might feel like a slap in the face. Still like it though. __________________________________________________ | |
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