Faire des ronds dans l'eau Cover Henry Salvador

Jean Pierre · November 07, 2018, 06:41:55 AM

VIDEO RELOADED and NEW MASTERING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJY58gpVAM

Henri Salvador, born in Cayenne, Guyana, on July 18, 1917 and died in Paris on February 13, 2008, is a French singer and comedian. Composer and guitarist, he began playing in French jazz orchestras. His long career (begun in the 1930s) took on a new dimension when he began a singing career in 1948.

We owe him many songs that are still in our memories today: Syracuse ; Maladie d'amour ; Le Loup, la Biche et le Chevalier (Une chanson douce) ; his cover in French Le lion est mort ce soir The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Jardin d'hiver...

He and Sacha Distel are the only two French variety singers to appear in the Dictionnaire du Jazz, each having known Ray Ventura well, Sacha Distel being his nephew and Henri Salvador, at his beginning, singer in his orchestra.

"Faire des ronds dans l'eau" is a song of Benjamin Biolay and aren Ann

I do guitars and singing, piano bass drums BIAB

In the screen, lyrics and translation

Ça fait des siècles que j'attends
Sous le paravent
Le vent du désert m'allonger
M'allonger sous le paravent
Sous le sable blanc
Tout près de la mer à côté

Un palais, luxueux hotel
Pour voir le temps qui passe
Je ne suis pas sur la photo
Je suis au bord de l'eau
Être en vie n'est pas assez ni trop

Je sais c'est rien mais je préfère
La seule chose que je sais faire
Des ronds dans l'eau
Les herbes folles et la rivière
Les plages du Finistère
Et la mer

Ça fait des siècles que j'entends
Les pas de passants
L'eau de la fontaine et la pluie
La pluie qui tombe sur les passants
Et sur le paravent
Tout près de la Seine à l'abri

Un palais un palace
Quand on oublie, hélas
Je n'ai pas vu le temps passer
Les soleils se coucher
Être en vie n'est jamais trop ni assez

Je sais c'est rien mais je préfère
La seule chose que je sais faire
Des ronds dans l'eau
Les herbes folles et la rivière
Les plages du Finistère
Et la mer...

I've been waiting for centuries
Under the draft shield
The desert wind makes me lie down
Lie down under the draft shield
Under the white sand
Close to the sea next door

A palace, a luxurious hotel
To see the passing of time
I'm not in the picture.
I'm by the water's edge
Being alive is not enough or too much

I know it's nothing but I prefer
The only thing I know how to do
Rounds in the water
The wild grasses and the river
The beaches of Finistère
And the sea

I've been hearing for centuries.
Passing footsteps
The water from the fountain and the rain
The rain that falls on passers-by
And on the screen
Very close to the Seine in the shelter

A palace a palace a palace
When we forget, unfortunately
I didn't see the time pass.
The suns go to bed
Being alive is never too much or enough

I know it's nothing but I prefer
The only thing I know how to do
Rounds in the water
The wild grasses and the river
The beaches of Finistère
And the sea....

Janpol1953 · November 07, 2018, 08:27:14 AM

C'est excellent, bravo JP, super guitare et super voix...
A great job!

Pete C · November 07, 2018, 01:08:45 PM

Lovely song JP - makes me feel like I'm in la belle France again !

Pete

Jean Pierre · November 08, 2018, 01:56:00 AM

Merci JP
you should post your cover of "Jardin d'hiver" to make Henri Salvador better known

PS for all, I have already posted a cover in SC of Henri Salvador "le blues du dentiste"...written by Boris Vian
you can see this video that I made for the beginning at the Ollofsson Hotel in Haiti... and for the end at home