Don Juan
Claude Nougaro Lyrics

Ce qu'il faut dire de fadaises
We Donjujus, Don Juan, tell lies to achieve our goal of finding a woman in our bed.

Pour voir enfin du fond de son lit
We say things to get the chance for intimacy with a woman in our bed.

Un soutien-gorge sur une chaise
We celebrate a woman’s underwear left behind in our bedroom as a prize of our Don Juan conquest.

Une paire de bas sur un tapis
We consider a woman’s stockings left in our bedroom as a sign of our success as Donjujus.

Nous les coureurs impénitents
As Donjujus and Don Juans, we are incorrigible seducers.

Nous les Donjujus, nous les Don Juan
We are Donjujus and Don Juans who believe in pursuing women.

Mais chaque fois que l'on renifle
Whenever we scent a new woman, we immediately try to seduce her.

La piste fraîche du jupon
We are always encouraged by the presence of woman’s skirts, which signal the potential for seduction.

Pour un baiser, pour une gifle
We are willing to take both affection and rejection in our pursuit of women.

Sans hésiter, nous repartons
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, never despair, and continue pursuing women with confidence.

La main frôleuse et l'œil luisant
We touch women tenderly, with an intense and seductive gaze in our eyes.

Nous les Donjujus, nous les Don Juan
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, are masters in seduction.

Le seul problème qu'on se pose
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, face the problem of finding a balance between the feminine beauty and nylon fabric.

C'est de séparer en deux portions
Our real problem is distinguishing between 55 kilos of female flesh and 55 grams of nylon fabric.

Cinquante-cinq kilos de chair rose
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, value a woman’s soft and fleshy body.

De cinquante-cinq grammes de nylon
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, tend to confuse lust with nylon fabric.

C'est pas toujours un jeu d'enfant
It is not easy to seduce women, despite our Don Juan or Donjuju tendencies.

Pour un Donjuju, pour un Don Juan
Seducing women is difficult even for Donjujus and Don Juans.

Le mannequin, la manucure
We are excited by women of different professions such as models, manicurists, airline hostesses.

La dactylo, l'hôtesse de l'air
We are interested in women from diverse professional backgrounds and will pursue them for seduction.

Tout est bon pour notre pâture
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, are open to all types of women, no matter their background or profession.

Que le fruit soit mûr ou qu'il soit vert
We are interested in women, whether they are mature or not.

Faut qu'on y croque à belles dents
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, are determined to seduce women by any means necessary.

Nous les Donjujus, nous les Don, Don, Don, Don Juan
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, are persistent and tireless in our pursuit of women.

Mais il arrive que le cœur s'accroche
Sometimes, we as Donjujus and Don Juans, fall in love with women.

Aux épines d'une jolie fleur
We may meet a beautiful and good woman, with whom we fall in love.

Ou qu'elle nous mette dans sa poche
Sometimes, we are trapped in a web of love by a woman.

Sous son mouchoir trempé de pleurs
Sometimes, the woman who has captured our hearts covers us with her wet handkerchief.

C'est le danger le plus fréquent
The most common danger we face as Donjujus and Don Juans is falling in love with women.

Pour un Donjuju, pour un Don Juan
Falling in love is a danger which occurs for Donjujus and Don Juans.

Nous les coureurs du tour de taille
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, are fond of women of various sizes.

Nous les gros croqueurs de souris
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, are experts in seducing women.

Il faut alors livrer bataille
We must fight for the woman we love.

Ou bien marcher vers la mairie
We must choose either to fight for or to seek the blessings of the marriage registrar, to secure the love of the woman we love.

Au bras d'une belle-maman
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, may only achieve marital bliss if we marry the right woman, with the consent of her mother.

Pauvres Donjujus, pauvres Don Juan
We may feel poor and sorrowful while pursuing the woman we love.

Nous tamiserons les lumières
We will dim the lights, even when it is the end of our life.

Même quand la mort viendra sonner
Even when death inevitably approaches us, we cannot help but continue searching for the love of our life.

Et nous dirons notre prière
We will pray, both for forgiveness and the salvation of our souls.

Sour un chapelet de grains de beauté
We will use the beauty of women to serve as the rosary for our prayers.

Et attendant le jugement
We will continue our pursuit for love, even when at judgment day.

Nous les Donjujus, nous les Don Juan
We, as Donjujus and Don Juans, remain hopeless romantics who will never give up the pursuit of love, even in the face of death.