(Georges Brassens live at Bobino Theater - Paris)

[Applause and musical intro]

# When they are bright new
# Barely hatched 
# Barely out of their cocoon

# All young greenhorns
# See all coots
# As jerks

# When they've become
# White heads
# Grey-haired

# All old ovens
# See the young floks
# as jerks

# As I hover in between two ages
# I'm sending them a message

# Time is immaterial
# When you're a jerk, you're a jerk

# Whether your twenty or a grandfather
# When you're a jerk, you're a jerk

# So stop arguing
# You obsolete jerks and newbie jerks

# Little jerks barely born
# Old jerks or yore

# Little jerks barely born
# Old jerks of yore

# You, young jerks in progress
# Clueless jerks
# Young jerks

# Who - don't deny it -
# See your dads
# as jerks

# You, elderly jerks
# Worn out jerks
# Old jerks

Who - fess it up
# See the little newbies
# As jerks

# Ponder the impartial message
# From one who hovers in between two ages

# Time is immaterial
# When you're a jerk, you're a jerk

# Whether your twenty or a grandfather
# When you're a jerk, you're a jerk

# So stop arguing
# You obsolete jerks and newbie jerks

# Little jerks barely born
# Old jerks of yore

# Little jerks barely born
# Old jerks of yore

[Applause]