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MON PÈRE (French) -1972- sung by Sylvie Vartan
(Michel Mallory / Marcel Benoit)

Que la maison me parait vide
Sans son désordre et sans sa voix
Ça me semble encore impossible
Pourtant il y a deux ans déjà

Ma mère a rangé tous ses livres
Et ses outils de jardinier
Tous ces objets qu'il faisait vivre
Qui eux aussi vont s'ennuyer

Il ne parlait pas de la guerre
Pourtant mon héros c'était lui
J'étais si fière qu'il soit mon père
Fière de m'appeler comme lui

Ses colères étaient des tempêtes
Lorsque j'avais désobéi
Et puis il pleurait en cachette
Parce que j'avais un premier prix

C'était plus que de la tendresse
Qu'il avait pour tous nos rosiers
Il peignait avec maladresse
C'était toujours moi qui posais

Je sais bien que je lui ressemble
Je suis têtue comme il l'était
J'ai ses yeux et ses côtés tendres
Et j'aime tout ce qu'il aimait

C'était mon ami et mon frère
Et tous mes souvenirs d'enfant
C'était mon ami et mon père
Et il me manque bien souvent
MY FATHER


How much the house seems empty to me
Without his disorder and without his voice
It still seems impossible to me
Yet it's already been two years

My mother put away all his books
And his gardener's tools
All these objects that he brought to life,
They too will be bored

He didn't talk about the war
Yet my hero was him
I was so proud he was my father
Proud to bear his name

His angers were storms
When I had disobeyed
And then he cried in secret
Because I had a first prize

It was more than tenderness
That he had for all our rose bushes
He painted clumsily
I was always the one who posed

I know I look like him
I'm stubborn like he was
I have his eyes and his tender sides
And I love everything he loved

He was my friend and my brother
And all my childhood memories
He was my friend and my father
And I miss him very often
Sylvie Vartan's First recording of the song.
Sylvie Vartan's Live rendition (much later).

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