It’s a very beautiful song and the most famous hit by Nino Ferrer. It is about nostalgia, summer, holidays, and the fact that all good things have an end. He wrote and composed this song all by himself. He had already made a version in English in his previous work that didn’t have a lot of success. And he was asked by his record managers to make a French version of it because they felt it would be more popular, and indeed it was. Enjoy !
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- C’est un endroit qui ressemble à la Louisianne
- À l’Italie
- Il y a du linge étendu sur la terrasse
- Et c’est joli
- On dirait le Sud
- Le temps dure longtemps
- Et la vie sûrement
- Plus d’un million d’années
- Et toujours en été
- Y a plein d’enfants qui se roulent sur la pelouse
- Y a plein de chiens
- Y a même un chat, une tortue, un poisson rouge
- Il ne manque rien
- On dirait le Sud
- Le temps dure longtemps
- Et la vie sûrement
- Plus d’un million d’années
- Et toujours en été
- Un jour ou l’autre il faudra qu’il y ait la guerre
- On le sait bien
- On n’aime pas ça, mais on ne sait pas quoi faire
- On dit c’est le destin
- Tant pis pour le Sud
- C’était pourtant bien
- On aurait pu vivre
- Plus d’un million d’années
- Et toujours en été
- It’s a place that looks like Louisianna
- Like Italy
- There’s laundry hanging on the deck
- And it’s beautiful
- It looks like the South
- Time lasts a long time
- And life surely
- More than a million years
- And always in summer
- There’s a lot of kids who are rolling on the lawn
- There’s a lot of dogs
- There’s even a cat, a turtle, a goldfish
- Nothing is missing
- It looks like the South
- Time lasts a long time
- And life surely
- More than a million years
- And always in summer
- One day or another there must be war happening
- We know that well
- We don’t like that, but we don’t know what to do
- We say it’s destiny
- Too bad for the South
- It was good however
- We could have lived
- More than a million years
- And always in summer
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