Les Passantes, Cover Georges Brassens

[Jean Pierre]

J'ai fait cette chanson avec une dédicace spéciale à notre ami Ray Brookes à cause de la ressemblance du theme avec sa chanson (original song) "Girl in a Morning Train" à laquelle j'ai participé et dont je republie d'ailleurs la video ici

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1piNtvxJFk

Cette chanson du grand chanteur, compositeur, poete français Georges Brassens est en fait la mise en musique d'un poeme de Antoine Pol
, je vous met les paroles en français et leur traduction en scroll

Je veux dédier ce poème
À toutes les femmes qu'on aime
Pendant quelques instants secrets
À celles qu'on connaît à peine
Qu'un destin différent entraîne
Et qu'on ne retrouve jamais

À celle qu'on voit apparaître
Une seconde à sa fenêtre
Et qui, preste, s'évanouit
Mais dont la svelte silhouette
Est si gracieuse et fluette
Qu'on en demeure épanoui

À la compagne de voyage
Dont les yeux, charmant paysage
Font paraître court le chemin
Qu'on est seul, peut-être, à comprendre
Et qu'on laisse pourtant descendre
Sans avoir effleuré la main

À celles qui sont déjà prises
Et qui, vivant des heures grises
Près d'un être trop différent
Vous ont, inutile folie
Laissé voir la mélancolie
D'un avenir désespérant

Chères images aperçues
Espérances d'un jour déçues
Vous serez dans l'oubli demain
Pour peu que le bonheur survienne
Il est rare qu'on se souvienne
Des épisodes du chemin

Mais si l'on a manqué sa vie
On songe avec un peu d'envie
À tous ces bonheurs entrevus
Aux baisers qu'on n'osa pas prendre
Aux cœurs qui doivent vous attendre
Aux yeux qu'on n'a jamais revus
Alors, aux soirs de lassitude

Tout en peuplant sa solitude
Des fantômes du souvenir
On pleure les lèvres absentes
De toutes ces belles passantes
Que l'on n'a pas su retenir

I want to dedicate this poem
To all the women we love
For a few secret moments
To those we hardly know
That a different destiny leads
And that we never find again

To the one you see appear
For a second at her window
And who, in a hurry, fades away
But whose slender figure
Is so graceful and slender
That one remains blooming

To the travel companion
Whose eyes, charming landscape
Make the path seem short
That one is alone, perhaps, to understand
And that we let go down
Without having touched the hand

To those who are already taken
And who, living grey hours
Near a being too different
You have, useless madness
Let you see the melancholy
Of a despairing future

Dear images glimpsed
Hopes of a day disappointed
You will be in the lapse of memory tomorrow
If happiness comes
It is rare that one remembers
Episodes of the path

But if one missed its life
One thinks with a little envy
To all these happinesses glimpsed
To the kisses that you didn't dare to take
To the hearts that must wait for you
To the eyes that we never saw again

Then, in the evenings of weariness
While populating his solitude
Of the ghosts of memory
We cry for the absent lips
Of all these beautiful passers-by
That one did not know how to retain

[Ray Brookes]

A beautiful song, JP and a great rendition of the poem. Are you playing the harmonica?

[Bishmanrock]

Lovely song, beautifully played and sung

[Jean Pierre]

thank you guys

Are you playing the harmonica?

...no Ray, for ease and speed I called a guy from Nashville Jelly Roll Johnson, through Band in a Box
In 1998, Jelly Roll won the Nashville Music Award for Best Wind Instrumentalist. After receiving nominations for 1998 and 2000, he won the best Specialty Instrument Award for 2003 and 2008 from the Academy of Country Music.
In 2018, Jelly Roll Johnson received the Pete Pedersen Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica (SPAH).

I couldn't do better 

[StephenM]

I am not sure it is possible and maybe I could be wrong but as good as you are you seem to be getting even better!  This is another notch up the totem pole of recording and performing.  It's really big sounding on my JBL 5 inch monitors.  I have a very nice system for recording and listening.  The Zoom L-20 is modern and very clear.  The computer audio comes out analog and goes into the Zoom and then out to the powered JBL's.  For a budget system (and that is what this is really even though the board costs about a 1000 dollars and the speakers around 400 there are way better and more expensive) it sounds really good and is a great system for home recording.  It is much better results than my BR1600...
having said all that JP this song is a wonderful recording. 

[Rene Asologuitar]

Hi Jean, Love the emotions on this song.
And I agree with Stephen, you are getting better and better.
Love the harmonica sound.
Rene

[des0free]

I love the songs you do in French.  I usually don't know them, and it is nice to be introduced to new songs, and your playing and singing here is really great!

[Jean Pierre]

thank you Doug

SC is a mainly Anglo-Saxon community, and dedicated to Rock Pop and a bit of Country music
but some of the members (most of them actually I think) are open to other cultures and other music from the world