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Jacques Brel - Rosa

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    [Instrumental Intro - tango rhythm]
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    [Chorus] Rosa rosa rosam Rosae rosae rosa
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    Rosae rosae rosas Rosarum rosis rosis
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    [Brel] It's the oldest tango in the world
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    The one the little darlings
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    Chant like a round
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    While learning their latin
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    This is the school tango
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    Which catches your dreams in a trap
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    And it's a sin
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    To not to [?]
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    This is the good fathers' tango
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    Who watch, eagle-eyed
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    The Juleses and the Prospers
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    Who will make up the France of tomorrow
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    Rosa rosa rosam Rosae rosae rosa
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    Rosae rosae rosas Rosarum rosis rosis
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    This is the geek's tango
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    Pimply to the extreme
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    Who wrap in wool
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    Their already-cold heart
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    This is the tango of those who are no good at anything
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    That decline their verbs sadly
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    And who will be pharmacists
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    Because dad wasn't one
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    This is the time when I came last
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    Because rather than this tango rosa rosae
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    I tended to prefer
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    My cousin Rosa already
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    Rosa rosa rosam Rosae rosae rosa
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    Rosae rosae rosas Rosarum rosis rosis
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    This is the tango of walks
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    ? under the arcades
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    Circled by crows and ?
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    Which protected us from the why
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    This is the tango of the rain on the playground
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    The mirror of a loveless puddle
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    That made me understand one beautiful day
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    That I wouldn't ever be Vasco da Gama
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    But it's the tango of the time of our lives
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    Where for a tiny kiss
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    In the light of a Thursday
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    Made cousin Rosa blush
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    Rosa rosa rosam Rosae rosae rosa
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    Rosae rosae rosas Rosarum rosis rosis
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    This is the tango of the time of scoring zeros
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    I had too many, thin ones, fat ones
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    I turned them into tunnels for Charlie Chaplin
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    Halos for St. Francis
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    This is the tango of rewards
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    That went to the ones who were lucky enough
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    To learn since they were children
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    Everything that will be no use at all
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    But it is the tango we miss
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    Once the time ?
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    And that we realised stupidly
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    That Rosa has thorns
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    [Brel and chorus] Rosa rosa rosam Rosae rosae rosa
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    Rosae rosae rosas Rosarum rosis rosis
Title:
Jacques Brel - Rosa
Description:

Jacques Brel - Rosa (1962)
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Video Language:
French
Team:
Music Captioning
Project:
Other Music Videos
Duration:
02:34
Claude Almansi commented on English subtitles for Jacques Brel - Rosa
Caroline Leonard edited English subtitles for Jacques Brel - Rosa

  • Claude Almansi

    Hi Caroline, about your [?] in ----

    "0:21 - 0:29 This is the school tango / Which catches your dreams in a trap / And it's a sin / To not to [?] "

    ---- the problem is that in the original French:

    " C'est le tango du collège / Qui prend les rêves au piège / Et dont il est sacrilège / De ne pas sortir malin" , "Qui" and "dont " refer to "collège", not to "tango". Difficult to render that structure if you use "school tango". So a very rough alternative translation might be: "This is the tango of the school / that catches your dreams in a trap / And from which it's a sin / Not to graduate as a clever person" ---- It's awful translationese, true, but maybe you can work something out from it?

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