Un Air De Liberté Lyrics in English Jean Ferrat

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Un Air De Liberté by Jean Ferrat from French to English.
These English lyric translations are not yet verified.
Les guerres du mensonge les guerres coloniales
The wars of lies the colonial wars
C'est vous et vos pareils qui en êtes tuteurs
It is you and your like who are guardians
Quand vous les approuviez à longueur de journal
When you approved them at length
Votre plume signait trente années de malheur
Your pen signed thirty years of misfortune
La terre n'aime pas le sang ni les ordures
The earth doesn't like blood or trash
Agrippa d'Aubigné le disait en son temps
Agrippa d'Aubigné said it in his time
Votre cause déjà sentait la pourriture
Your cause already smelled of rot
Et c'est ce fumet-là que vous trouvez plaisant
And it's this scent that you find pleasant
monsieur d'Ormesson, vous osez déclarer
Monsieur d'Ormesson, you dare to declare
Qu'un air de liberté flottait sur Saïgon
That an air of freedom floated over Saigon
Avant que cette ville s'appelle Ville Ho-Chi-Minh
Before this city was called Ho-Chi-Minh City
Allongés sur les rails nous arrêtions les trains
Lying on the tracks we stopped the trains
Pour vous et vos pareils nous étions la vermine
For you and your like we were vermin
Sur qui vos policiers pouvaient taper sans frein
Who your police could hit without stopping
Mais les rues résonnaient de paix en Indochine
But the streets resonated with peace in Indochina
Nous disions que la guerre était perdue d'avance
We said the war was lost in advance
Et cent mille Français allaient mourir en vain
And a hundred thousand French people were going to die in vain
Contre un peuple luttant pour son indépendance
Against a people fighting for their independence
Oui vous avez un peu de ce sang sur les mains
Yes you have some of this blood on your hands
monsieur d'Ormesson, vous osez déclarer
Monsieur d'Ormesson, you dare to declare
Qu'un air de liberté flottait sur Saïgon
That an air of freedom floated over Saigon
Avant que cette ville s'appelle Ville Ho-Chi-Minh
Before this city was called Ho-Chi-Minh City
Après trente ans de feu de souffrance et de larmes
After thirty years of fire of suffering and tears
Des millions d'hectares de terre défoliés
Millions of hectares of land defoliated
Un génocide vain perpétré au Viêt-Nam
A vain genocide perpetrated in Vietnam
Quand le canon se tait vous vous continuez
When the cannon is silent you continue
Mais regardez-vous donc un matin dans la glace
But look at yourself one morning in the mirror
Patron du Figaro songez à Beaumarchais
Boss of Le Figaro think of Beaumarchais
Il saute de sa tombe en faisant la grimace
He jumps from his grave making a face
Les maîtres ont encore une âme de valet
The masters still have the soul of a servant
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