Bozambo Lyrics in English Claude Nougaro
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Bozambo by Claude Nougaro from French to English.
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J'ai choisi quelques tubes, deux ou trois pinceaux
I chose a few tubes, two or three brushes
Aujourd'hui je peins le tableau
Today I paint the picture
Terminé les études, allez au boulot
Finished school, go to work
C'est parti j'attaque le tableau
Here we go, I attack the painting
Le chevalet cabré, je brosse à larges touches
The prancing easel, I brush with broad strokes
Un festival de gerbes, un concerto de touffes
A festival of sheaves, a concerto of tufts
Ça fait dresser le poil du pinceau qui se fraie
It makes the hair of the paintbrush stand up
Un sentier lumineux au sein de la forêt
A luminous path in the heart of the forest
Des serpents ravissants gambadent dans la brousse
Lovely snakes frolic in the bush
Un tigre se déploie avec sa robe rousse
A tiger unfolds with its red dress
Il rugit de bonheur et bondit d'un bamboo
He roared with happiness and jumped from a bamboo
Car d'une liane d'or qui descend? Bozambo
Because of a golden vine that descends? Bozambo
Bozambo, Bozambo
Bozambo, Bozambo
Le roi de la forêt
The king of the forest
Bozambo, Bozambo
Bozambo, Bozambo
Ça mérite un arrêt
It deserves a stop
Je tripote des tubes, j'essuie mes pinceaux
I fiddle with tubes, I wipe my brushes
En scrutant l'état du tableau
By examining the state of the table
J'ai pas pour habitude de lâcher l'morceau
I'm not in the habit of letting go
Allez! À l'assaut, Picasso
Come on! On the attack, Picasso
Bozambo, le portrait tout craché de mon âme
Bozambo, the spitting image of my soul
Cette épaisse forêt où pulsent des tam-tams
This thick forest where drums beat
Bozambo le pygmée mais aux âmes bien nées
Bozambo the pygmy but with well-born souls
La hauteur n'atteint pas la grandeur des pygmées
The height does not reach the greatness of the pygmies
La grandeur des pygmées
The greatness of the pygmies
Grandeur des pygmées
Greatness of the pygmies
Bozambo tu es beau, ta petite sagaie
Bozambo you are beautiful, your little assegai
Et ta chute de reins à damner tous les gays
And your loss of back to damn all gays
Pose encore Bozambo! Mais Bozambo se calte
Bozambo pose again! But Bozambo calms down
Dans du noir d'ivoire, du bleu de cobalt
In ivory black, cobalt blue
Il ne m'aura laissé pour éclairer ma jungle
He will not have left me to light my jungle
Que dix petits croissants: les lunes de ses ongles
Than ten little crescents: the moons of her nails
Bozambo, Bozambo
Bozambo, Bozambo
Dieu seul sait où il est
God only knows where he is
Il ne m'aura laissé pour éclairer ma jungle
He will not have left me to light my jungle
Dix petits croissants, les lunes de ses ongles
Ten little crescents, the moons of her nails
Je revisse mes tubes et d'un fin pinceau
I screw my tubes back on and use a fine brush
Je me signe au bas du tableau
I sign myself at the bottom of the table
Une belle peinture mérite le repos
A beautiful painting deserves rest
Je vais peindre des nus au dodo
I'm going to paint nudes at bedtime
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