Look Down (Reprise) (Donnez, Donnez) - Translation from Les Misérables (Châtelet) in french
Give, give (Donnez, donnez)
To the beggars at your feet (aux mendiants à vos pieds)
Give, give (Donnez, donnez)
Give, have pity (Donnez, ayez pitié)
Give, give (Donnez, donnez)
A sou for you is little (Un sou pour vous c'est peu)
Give, give (Donnez, donnez)
You're lending to God (Vous prêtez au Bon Dieu)
Hello Paris it's me Gavroche (Bonjour Paris c'est moi Gavroche!)
I ain't no virgin no more as I say (Chui plus la vierge comme je le dis) *by virgin he means he has lived life. He isn't talking about anything sexual.
I live in the streets I toughen up (J'vis dans la rue à m'faire l'écorce)
Crazy at school and at church (Fêlé à l'école et à l'église)
Here we did the revolution (Ici on a fait la révolution)
Equality, a pretty dream (L'égalité, un joli rêve)
And now we fight for a bit of bread (Et maintenant on se bat pour du pain)
We're only equal when we die (On est égaux que quand on crève)
We are free (On est libres)
And we think (Et on pense)
Follow the guide (Suivez [le] l'guide)
Give, give (Donnez, donnez)
A sou at arm's length (Un sou à bout de bras)
Give, give (Donnez, donnez)
To all who have the right (À tous ceux qui l'y ont l'droit)
Ask for the news! (Demandez les nouvelles!)
*The part with the prostitutes arguying is cut*
Luckily that among the bourgeoisie (Heureusement [que] qu'chez les gens [de la] d'la haute)
There is one who looks down (Y'en [Il y en] a un qui regarde en bas)
Only one, general Lamarque (Un seul, le général Lamarque)
The voice of those who don't have one (La voix de ceux qui n'en ont pas)
Feed our kids (Nourrit nos enfants)
One day without misery (Un jour sans misère)
A sou, a crumb, a boon from God the Father (Un sou, un crouton, un bon de Dieux le Père)
Of our Lord (Du Seigneur)
In his name, in his name, in his name, in his name... (En son nom, en son nom, en son nom, en son nom...)
Lamarque is fading, he is sick (Lamarque s'éteint, il est malade)
(Courfeyrac or Combeferre, not quite sure)
He doesn't have long left (Il n'en a plus pour très longtemps)
With the riot already rumbling (Avec l'émeute déjà qui gronde)
Paris looks like a volcano (Paris ressemble à un volcan)
Ready to puke its anger's lava (Prête à vomir la lave de sa colère)
Finally revolutionnary! (Enfin révolutionnaire!)
Check out old Thenardier (Regardez le vieux Thénardier)
I know he's concocting some scheme ([Je] J'sais qu'il bâtit une entourloupe)
Apparently he was a cafe owner (Paraît qu'il était cafetier)
Wouldn't be me eating his pie (C'est pas moi qui boufferais sa tourte)
He's got a gang of misfits around (Il a une bande de mécréants autour)
He even gets his daughter to work (Il met même sa fille au turbin)
It's Eponine who traps pigeons for them (C'est Éponine qui leur piège des pigeons)
Only a kid, but scared of nothing (Juste une gamine, mais peur de rien)
It's cold, we're hungry (Il fait froid, on a faim)
All is fine, all is fine! (Tout va bien, Tout va bien!)
Give, give (Donnez, donnez)
A sou at arm's length (Un sou à bout de bras)
Give, give (Donnez, donnez)
To those who have nothing anymore (À ceux qui n'ont plus rien)
Rehersals, to all their post, in place, Babet, Clarquesous (Répétitions, chacun son poste, en place, Babet, Clarquesous)
You, Montparnasse, you keep watch, with Ponine, lazybones, I charm them, you [to Mme Thenardier] bring them to tears (Toi Montparnasse, tu fais le guêt, avec Ponine, feignasse, je leur fait du charme, toi [Madame Thénardier] tiens-leur les larmes)
I'm fed up with those students (J'en ai plein [les] l'basques des étudiants)
Playing poor in pretty suits (Qui jouent les pauvres en beaux costumes)
Our Eponine kisses their feet (Notre Éponine leur bèse les pieds)
I'd shove mine right up their ass (J'leur ficherais bien [le] l'mien dans la lune) *Adapted expression to the same meaning, the literal translation would be "I'd put them mine in the moon"
Ah, here you are little neighbor (Ah te voilà petite voisine)
Where were you these days (Où étais-tu tous ces jours-ci)
You were looking for me, I'm here, I'm coming (Vous me cherchez, [je] j'suis là, j'arrive)
Careful that the police doesn't follow you (Prends garde que la police te suive)
Those pretty books full of singing words (Ces beaux livres pleins de mots qui chantent)
I would have liked to learn to read (J'aurais voulu apprendre à lire)
Don't judge me on my appearance (Me jugez pas sur l'apparence)
Because there are thing I know, not kidding (Parce que [il] y'a des choses que [je] j'sais, sans rire)
Poor Eponine, you know a thousand things that those pretty books don't teach (Pauvre Éponine, tu sais mille choses que ces beaux livres n'enseignent pas)
I like when your hair curls on your neck (J'aime quand vos cheveux frisent dans [le] l'cou) *Eponine adresses Marius politely, not as a friend, when Marius adresses her familiarly
You, stop laughing at me! (Toi, cesses de te moquer de moi!)
He doesn't understand anything, he doesn't see me (Il comprend rien, il me voit pas)
*Gavroche's actor doesn't articulate his words very well and had me STRUGGLING through the recording to understand what he was saying (and my first language is french!), so some translations might be wrong because I misunderstood or misinterpreted the words. I couldn't find the lyrics online since the new version of Les Mis has different lyrics from the original one. If you got any feedback, please leave a comment!!
I'm back with translations! (Thank god for summer vacation, any other teachers out there relieved?)
This one was so tough, here I thought it would be easy- I was mistaken.
Tell me what you think in the comments and feel free to leave suggestions on songs I should translate next!