This great song, written by Alain Souchon and composed by Laurent Voulzy as usual, is a “mix” of great English or American rock songs and artists, meant as a tribute. Most of these standards have already been covered numerous times by French people (with their lyrics translated into French) but this is the first time that there’s a “patchwork” of several pieces of songs to create a new one. It’s a nostalgic recollection (hence the name of the song, with a pun in it) of being a teenager and rock fan in the 60’s. Enjoy !
There’s several versions of different lengths, so I’m gonna translate the lyrics I found, which sticks to the full version.
And after the translation I’ll put the list of the songs quoted 😉
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- On a tous dans l’coeur une petite fille oubliée
- Une jupe plissée queue d’cheval à la sortie du lycée
- On a tous dans l’coeur un morceau d’feraille usée
- Un vieux scooter de rêve pour faire le cirque dans l’quartier
- Et la p’tite fille chantait (x2)
- Et la p’tite fille chantait (x2)
- Un truc qui m’colle encore au coeur et au corps
- Everybody is doin’ a brand new dance now
- Come on baby, do the Loco-Motion
- I know you’ll get to like it it you give it a chance now
- Come on baby, do the Loco-Motion
- On a tous dans l’coeur le ticket pour Liverpool
- Sortie de scène hélicoptère pour échapper à la foule
- Excuse me Sir mais j’entends plus Big Ben qui sonne
- Des scarabées bourdonnent c’est la folie à London
- Et les Beatles chantaient (x2)
- Et les Beatles chantaient (x2)
- Un truc qui m’colle encore au coeur et au corps
- It’s been a Hard Day’s Night
- And I’ve been working like a dog
- It’s been a Hard Day’s Night
- Yeah, yeah, yeah
- Yeah
- À quoi ça va m’servir d’aller m’faire couper les tifs
- Est-ce que ma vie sera mieux une fois qu’jaurai mon certif’
- Betty a rigolé devant ma boule à zéro
- Je lui dis si ça te plaît pas t’as qu’à te plaindre au dirlo
- Et je m’suis fait virer (x2)
- Et les Beach Boys chantaient
- Un truc qui m’colle encore au coeur et au corps
- Round, round, get around, I get around […]
- On a tous dans l’coeur des vacances à Saint-Malo
- Et des parents en maillot qui dansent chez Luis Mariano
- Au “Camping des flots bleus”, j’me traîne des tonnes de cafard
- Si j’avais bossé un peu j’me serais payé une guitare
- Et Saint-Malo dormait
- Et les radios chantaient
- Un truc qui m’colle encore au coeur et au corps
- Gloria
- Gloria
- Au café d’ma banlieue t’as vu la bande à Jimmy
- Ça frime pas mal, ça roule autour du baby
- Le pauvre Jimmy s’est fait piquer chez le disquaire, c’est dingue
- Avec un single des Stones caché sous ses fringues
- Et les loulous roulaient
- Et les cailloux chantaient
- Un truc qui m’colle encore au coeur et au corps
- I can get no
- I can get no
- I can get no
- Satisfaction
- Le jour où j’vais partir je sens que ça va faire mal
- Ma mère n’aime pas mon blouson et les franges de mon futal
- Le long des autoroutes il y a de beaux paysages
- J’ai ma guitare dans l’dos et pas d’ronds pour le voyage
- Et Bob Dylan chantait (x2)
- Et Bob Dylan chantait (x2)
- Un truc qui m’colle encore au coeur et au corps
- Hey Mister Tambourine Man
- Play a song for me
- In the jingle jangle morning
- I’ll come following you
- Laissez-moi passer j’ai mes papiers mon visa
- Je suis déjà dans l’avion going to America
- Même si j’reste ici que j’passe ma vie à Nogent
- J’aurai une vieille Chevrolet et dix-huit filles dedans
- Et les Bee Gees chantaient (x2)
- Et les Bee Gees chantaient (x2)
- Un truc qui m’colle encore au coeur et au corps
- And the lights all went down in Massachusets
- The day I left her standing on her own
- Au printemps 66 j’suis tombé fou amoureux
- Ça m’a fait plutôt mal j’avais de l’eau dans les yeux
- Ma p’tite poupée j’temmène dans le pays d’mes langueurs
- Elle fait douceur douceur, la musique que j’ai dans le coeur
- Toute la nuit on s’aimait (x2)
- Quand Donovan chantait (x2)
- Un truc qui m’colle encore au coeur et au corps
- They call me mellow yellow
- They call me mellow yellow…
- Maint’nant j’ai une guitare et j’voyage organisé
- J’me lève tous les jours trop tard et j’vis aux Champs Elysées
- J’suis parti je n’sais où mais pas où j’voulais aller
- Dans ma tête y a des trous, j’me souviens plus des couplets
- Y a des rêves qui sont cassés
- Des airs qui partent en fumée
- Des trucs qui m’collent encore au coeur et au corps
- I’d be safe and warm
- If I was in L.A.
- California dreaming
- On such a winter’s day…
- We all have in our hearts a forgotten little girl
- A pleated skirt on the way out of high school
- We all have in our hearts a piece of old scrap
- An dream old scooter to do the circus in the neighborhood
- And the little girl was singing (x2)
- And the little girl was singing (x2)
- A thing that still sticks to my heart and to my body
- Everybody is doin’ a brand new dance now
- Come on baby, do the Loco-Motion
- I know you’ll get to like it it you give it a chance now
- Come on baby, do the Loco-Motion
- We all have in our hearts the ticket for Liverpool
- Stage exit, helicopter to escape the crowd
- Excuse me Sir but I can’t hear Big Ben ringing anymore
- Some beetles 1 buzz, there’s madness in London
- And the Beatles were singing (x2)
- And the Beatles were singin (x2)
- A thing that still sticks to my heart and to my body
- It’s been a Hard Day’s Night
- And I’ve been working like a dog
- It’s been a Hard Day’s Night
- Yeah, yeah, yeah
- Yeah
- What would be the point for me to get my hair cut
- Will my life be better once I’ll pass my exam
- Betty laughed in front of me bold
- I told her “if you don’t like it why don’t you complain to the director”
- And I got fired (x2)
- And the Beach Boys were singing (x2)
- A thing that still sticks to my heart and to my body
- Round, round, get around, I get around […]
- We all have in our hearts holidays in Saint-Malo
- And parents in shirt dancing with Luis Mariano 2
- At the “Blue Waves Camping”, I carry with me tons of blues
- Had I worked a bit, I’d have bought a guitar
- And Saint-Malo was sleeping (x2)
- And the radios were singing (x2)
- A thing that still sticks to my heart and to my body
- Gloria
- Gloria
- At my suburb’s café you saw Jimmy’s gang
- It shows off quite a lot, it rolls around the baby foot
- Poor Jimmy got caught at the record store, how crazy
- With a Stones single hidden under his clobber
- And the yobs were rolling (x2)
- And the stones were singing (x2)
- A thing that still sticks to my heart and to my body
- I can get no
- I can get no
- I can get no
- Satisfaction
- On the day I’ll leave I feel that it will hurt
- My mother doesn’t like my jacket and my pant’s fringes
- Along the highways there’s beautiful landscapes
- I got my guitar on the back and no bucks for the trip
- And Bob Dylan was singing (x2)
- And Bob Dylan was singing (x2)
- A thing that still sticks to my heart and to my body
- Hey Mister Tambourine Man
- Play a song for me
- In the jingle jangle morning
- I’ll come following you
- Let me go over, I got my papers, my visa
- I’m already in the plane going to America
- Even if I remain here, that I spend my life in Nogent
- I’ll have an old Chevrolet and eighteen girls in it
- And the Bee Gees were singing (x2)
- And the Bee Gees were singing (x2)
- A thing that still sticks to my heart and to my body
- And the lights all went down in Massachusets
- The day I left her standing on her own
- On spring ’66 I fell madly in love
- It rather hurt me, I had water in my eyes
- My little doll I take you to the country of my languor
- It makes sweetness, sweetness, the music I got in my heart
- All night we’d love each other (x2)
- When Donovan was singing (x2)
- A thing that still sticks to my heart and to my body
- They call me mellow yellow
- They call me mellow yellow…
- Now I got a guitar and I do organised trips
- I wake up late every morning and I live in the Champs Elysées
- I went God knows where but not where I wanted to go
- In my head there’s holes, I don’t remember the verses
- There’s dreams that have broken
- Airs that go up in smoke
- Things that still stick to my heart and to my body
- I’d be safe and warm
- If I was in L.A.
- California Dreaming
- On such a winter’s day…
Songs quoted (in order) :
- Little Eva : The Loco-Motion
- The Beatles : A Hard Day’s Night
- The Beach Boys : I Get Around
- Them : Gloria
- The Rolling Stones : (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Bob Dylan : Mr Tambourine Man
- Bee Gees : Massachusets
- Donovan : Mellow Yellow
- The Mama’s and the Papa’s : California Dreaming
[The songs used varied in various Laurent Voulzy shows, he would add many other stuff. For those interested there’s more information here.]
Notes :
- There’s a little game with French translations of English bands in this songs (see the Stones too).
- Luis Mariano was a very famous French singer especially in the 1940’s and 1950’s. For the youth in the 60’s, he kind of represented the epitomy of “has been” music for grown-ups, in opposition with the modernity of the new rock music.
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