Dites-Moi
Rogers and Hammerstein Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Dites-Moi' by these artists:

Ella Fitzgerald Dites-moi Pourquoi La vie est belle, Dies-moi Pourquoi La vi…
Fababy Relations amoureuses, j'suis vraiment instable La mer efface…
Fababy feat. Kenyon Relations amoureuses, j'suis vraiment instable La mer efface…
Jonasz Michel Elle avait toujours Dans son porte-monnaie L'île au trésor E…
Michel Jonasz Elle avait toujours Dans son porte monnaie L'île au trésor…
Nellie Forbush and Children Dites-moi Pourquoi La vie est belle, Dies-moi Pourquoi La vi…
Roch Voisine Pour Marie-Jeanne Ma courtisane si tendre Moi je chantai…
Rodgers & Hammerstein Dites-moi, pourquoi La vie est belle Dites-moi, pourquoi …
South Pacific Dites-moi, pourquoi La vie est belle Dites-moi, pourquoi …

South Pacific - 1988 London Cast Dites-moi Pourquoi La vie est belle, Dies-moi Pourquoi La vi…
South Pacific - 1998 London Cast Dites-moi Pourquoi La vie est belle, Dies-moi Pourquoi La vi…
South Pacific - 2002 Royal National Theatre Cast Dites-moi Pourquoi La vie est belle, Dies-moi Pourquoi La vi…
South Pacific- Lincoln Center Cast Dites-moi Pourquoi La vie est belle, Dies-moi Pourquoi La vi…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Rogers and Hammerstein:

Climb Ev'ry Mountain Climb every mountain Search high and low Follow every byway …
Do-Re-Mi Let's start at the very beginning A very good place to…
Edelweiss Edelweiss, Edelweiss Every morning you greet me Small and …
I Have Confidence [LUN THA] I have dreamed that your arms are lovely, I have…
Maria Maria... The most beautiful sound I ever heard: Maria,…
My Favorite Things Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper ket…
Oh What a Beautiful Morning There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow There's a bright…
Overture Drop that long face C'mon have your fling Why keep nursing…
People Will Say We're In Love Why do they think up stories that link my name…
So Long Farewell I tried to find my way around here But there's no…
Some Enchanted Evening Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger You may see…
The Sound of Music Let's start at the very beginning A very good place to…
You'll Never Walk Alone When you walk through a storm Hold your chin up high And…

Younger Than Springtime Younger than springtime are you Softer than starlight are yo…

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@katiearden09

3y↑3

Dites-moi pour quoi la vie est belle

dites-moi pour quoi la vie est gai?

Dites-moi pour quoi chère ma d’moisella

est ce que par ce que vous m’ai mez?

English:
tell me why the sky is filled with music

Tell me why we fly on clouds above?

Can it be that we can fly to music

Just because just because

We’re in love?

Haha sry no one responded to u in nine years idek if u still have yt but this is the translation

All comments from YouTube:

@lbeauchamp57

21w↑4

My father ended up with dementia, but for his last five years he and I sang this song every week. He missed my mother so much, and they both loved the South Pacific soundtrack. Such a beautiful little song! ❤

@alicemachado6532

8w↑1

Beautiful!

@keatonforde4798

4y↑33

My first acting and singing job was playing the female child way back in 1954. Talent scouts went to all the grade schools looking for children who could sing a song in French. Because I was blonde with brown eyes production had me apply a dark rinse to my hair and a quick tanning product called Man Tan. The young Sophomore named Anita Bryant belted out, "Gonna Wash That Man Right out Of my hair". Thank you Will Roger's High School in Tulsa Oklahoma.🎶 Am still singing.

@keatonforde4798

4y↑7

Thank you kindly for your thumbs up. During the first part of this covid season my new friend Patrick from Canada and I were eating hotdogs from Costco. He asked me "what was my first acting job...I sang the French song and he TRANSLATED it! 👏🍿❤👱‍♀️

@annhitchcock3093

Keep singing!! I love your story. It makes me want to sing too. I was a really good singer, but I never had the opportunity to keep up my voice lessons. I did a few performances... but this story also has a happy ending, because my sons ( now 28 and 30), are both accomplished musicians, actors and dancers. Neither has a contract, but one is close to having one. The contract doesn’t matter- the fact that they can produce beautiful music and soulful dance and art anywhere they are is a gem that lives inside them!! So that’s why I say: please keep singing!

@keatonforde4798

2y↑1

Singing update am now a member of Bel Air Church and sing in the Praise Band as well as the Traditional Choir. Never give up on your dreams folks.

@scottmiller6495

4y↑65

One of the greatest endings to a motion picture of all time, the powerful music with the epic finale does the trick just superb !!!!!

@terrywright7470

4y↑1

Another film with a heartrending ending is "A Farewell To Arms" starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones, a real tearjerker of a finale.

@Operafreak9

3y↑3

The most beautiful usage of understatement, and yes, one of the greatest endings ever.

@BairMendoza

26w↑2

I am American, but I grew up in France, and my grandpa was in WW2, and I was a musical theater kid, so even now, as a grownup with kids, I can’t help but get emotional and cry every time I see this ending. 🥲

@daphneduryea9136

24w↑1

Rossano Brazzi was in the greatest ending, South Pacific & also, the greatest opening scene ever, in 'The Italian Job'

@brownncares

2y↑7

Got a toy record player for my birthday in 1957. One side was Happy Talk and the other was Dites-moi. Never saw this clip until today in 2021. I love YT.

@elizabethali8090

1y↑9

Absolutely one of the best films ever made!

@robertivanshellenbarger3629

14w

Aye!

@terrywright7470

3y↑15

MItzi Gaynor was one of the most beautiful and under rated of all the Hollywood actress`s, the shame is that she was not used more

@Operafreak9

3y↑7

She owns this role.

@robertivanshellenbarger3629

14w↑2

I agree! She'll always be my Nellie!

@avuncular300

5y↑31

A fitting end to a most glorious musical. Time hasn't diminished its appeal/ Wonderful !.

@rogerlynch5279

23w

There is also the novel under the same name written by JAMES A MITCHENER. The musical is based on it. But there the Nurse had reject the Plantage Owner because of his NATIVE! children

@EncouragementToGo7IME

3y↑7

I love this scene.

@Gillmojo

11y↑72

Took me thirty years to know enough French to understand the lyrics, but it never mattered. Sung it as a kid and still sing it to this day... and sob my way through this end scene every darn time!

@terrywright7470

4y↑11

I saw it at the cinema in Leeds when it was first released, the final scene came to its climax, and as soon as the credits began the cinema put all the main lights on, and 99% of the audience were dabbing the tears from their eyes.......Me included. I am a guy who is now 84 years of age, and I play this film on the PC at least once a month.

@rogerlynch5279

23w↑1

Yes the song is as charming as it is timeless

@davidallen508

6y↑25

This finale is enchanting and not marred by those intrusive colour filters that spoiled so many other scenes in the movie.

@StanGay

5y↑4

Apparently there was much discussion about using them during the filming.
I think it was David O. Selznick who decided to go with them. (I big mistake in my opinion)

@davidmcleod709

11y↑28

Literal translation: Tell me why life is good. Tell me why life is gay. Tell me, my dear young woman. Is it because you love me?

@jamesherald1881

34w↑2

We’ve got sunlight on the sand. We’ve got moonlight on the sea.

@jamesherald1881

34w↑2

We’ve got mangoes and bananas you can eat right off ❤ tree . We’ve got volleyball and plng pong and a lot of dandy games. What ain’t we got?

@TFZ.

12w

@@jamesherald1881🎼🎶"We AIN’T got DAMES!"

@Crowbird41

12y↑17

Such an Enchanting song! Heard it as a child when I saw the movie with my dad. I still don't know what the French words of the song mean. Yet I still sing this song in the shower now and again.

@katiearden09

3y↑3

@evapaiz596

2y↑5

French translation:

Tell me why life is beautiful?

Tell me why life is gay (happy)?

Tell me why, dear young lady,

Is it because--It's because--you love me.

@paulyarbrough9961

8y↑15

I love that song. It captures the heart of South Pacific!

@carolrunham1362

4y↑5

A great song and a great film too

@sameyvie9522

7y↑7

la vie est belle parce que nous le souffle de vie.
Merci Seigneur!

@lorettahovanec6542

6y↑27

Makes me cry.

@SophieAJourney

5y↑2

Me too 😢

@terrywright7470

5y↑2

If you have seen the film I am not surprised at your tears, I saw it when it first came out in England, and that scene is the climax of the film, Mitzi Gaynor thought that Rossano Brazzi had died. At the end of the film in the cinema where I saw it, the lights went up immediately when this song ended, and droves people were wiping their eyes and trying to hold back their tears. I know that it`s a well worn cliche "But they don`t make `em like this anymore"

@organicgardenmamavictoriab2768

Me too

@scottmiller6495

4y↑3

The ending music is extremely moving and intense!!!!!

@nicfewer8393

1y↑1

BarBara Luna played Ngane in the original Broadway production and sang this. By the time the film was made she was playing the older role of Liat (Frances Nuyen in the film) on stage.

@gonzigonzales4251

2y↑6

A masterpiece!

@user-md5ki4zz6e

5y↑3

何回観ても好きなシーンです。

@jimbachman3344

41w↑3

If you read the book, Mitchner called the islanders, Tonkinese. In reality they were Vietnamese and they hated the French. At the time, the French ruled Vietnam. At the time of the play, the Viet Minh had just begun to fight. They wanted their freedom. We lost 58,000 killed, much of our national treasure trying to tell the Vietnamese how to run their lives.

@daphneduryea9136

20w

If JFK hadn't been assassinated the Viet Nam war wouldn't have happened. It was a coup d'état by the military industrial complex and we haven't been at peace since.

@linglai9670

2y↑6

My mum used to sing this to me when I was little to put me to sleep

@debbiecraig817

3y↑2

One of my favorite movies

@gayshit2188

5y↑8

We listen to this in french class everyday. Apparently seventh grades are extremely immature

@joeysarmiento1925

5y↑3

Loreta Hovanec, you and me both. I miss my uncle-dad just watching this scene. South Pacific soundtrack is his favorite music and movie.

@clutterpossum6557

5y↑11

Goosebumps.

@JasDeeBustard

11y↑4

Glorious little French ditty!

@martinphilip8998

3y↑7

My mother gave her eight children a love of music. Fifty years ago I worked in a grocery. The other guys my age couldn’t believe that I could sing the words to musak they didn’t even notice. The customers were very amused to hear me singing about washing that man right out of hair. Lol. Gay bashing wasn’t a thing my coworkers would try with me. I’d have bashed them harder. Besides, they knew I was dating a few of the cutest cashiers. Knowing music and singing isn’t gay.

@terrywright7470

2y↑1

Well said Martin, whatever you are, be PROUD. I am an old man of 85 and when I was younger I was ostracised by many because I had a couple of Gay friends, it hurt, but friends are friends and I had cause to remember those who gave me a hard time. I had a big crisis in my life, and the first ones to stand by me and give unsolicited help were my two Gay friends. Sadly they have both died in the last four years and I miss them like Hell.

@martinphilip8998

2y↑1

@@terrywright7470 I’m sorry for your loss. Not everyone is so open minded.

@terrywright7470

2y↑1

@@martinphilip8998 Many Thanks Martin. May God bless you.

@yanagoldberg6507

10y↑48

The english translation is: Tell me why the sky is filled with music
Tell me why we fly on clouds above
Can it be, just because, we're in love?

@AnnoyingPlayers

10y↑21

That's not the direct translation.

The direct translation would be:

Tell me why life is beautiful,
Tell me why life is happy,
Tell me why, dear madame,
Is it because you love me?

@thorstefansson7393

10y↑1

Actually instead of dear madame it would be dear unmaried lady

@sonjamorin7714

8y↑11

Both are right. The first comment has the English translation to fit with the music. The second comment has the literal translation from the French. So there is, in fact, no need to argue.

@robertamsel4769

7y↑4

In English, it would translate as "dear miss," which means "dear unmarried lady," except no one would say that. In modern English, we might instead say "dear ms." instead but back in the 1940's, it was "dear miss." I hope that's not too confusing.

@Jaxonrwc

6y↑3

That’s the second verse not the translation

@LayBackBrandonT

11y↑29

Je vous promets que les paroles sont celles-ci! I promise these are the lyrics in English. Tell me why life is beautiful/Tell me why life is gay/Tell me why dear mademoiselle/Is it because you love me? I speak French, and I'm a translator. there's nothing about 'musique dans l'air' or 'voler sur les nuages'.

@sophieanderson7229

Brandon Thomas im learning French

@AndiFels

Thank you! I don't speak French, but I was 100% sure the official "translation" was wrong.

@12classics39

1y↑10

A beautiful ending for Nellie, Emile, and the kids. I especially love how the kids just go on eating as the two adults hold hands; it shows that they are fully accustomed to Nellie and they are already satisfied having her be a part of the family, so her being next to their father just feels right to them, not abnormal at all. This finale also makes me wonder about the future of Liat and Bloody Mary. Liat stood up for herself and refused to marry anyone other than Cable. Did she settle for the other guy her mother wanted her to marry? Was she pregnant with her and Cable’s baby? I feel that the latter is likely, in which case Emile and Nellie certainly helped her and Mary take care of the child in every way they could out of obligation since they both were close with Cable. If Cable’s family were ever to hear of their grandchild - a piece of him that was left - it might set them on the path to overcoming their prejudice.

@sbinsdca

43w↑1

You realize this is fake, right? 😂

@sbinsdca

43w↑1

@@12classics39 lol. They don't have futures.

@TFZ.

12w

Aye... That I could live with. :)

@supertrinigamer

6y↑8

here from school XD like so teacher can see

@pamelalawrence1704

I cried at the end of this movie

@sonofdisaster2

12y↑8

You're the first person on YouTube that I've seen that actually knows. The last line "est-ce que parce que vous m'aimez?" actually means "is it because you love me?" :3

@tomasinacovell4293

9y↑4

Oui!

@lexieleyden

9y↑15

Looks in Description Pets & Animals. Yep got that one right.

@dennisberkowsky2909

+Rosa Lex LOL LMFAO

@kellikd3

12y↑5

Crowbird ill tell you what dites-moi means. I have a paper of what it says. Here it is: tell me why the sky is filled with music tell me why w fly on clouds above can it be that we can fly to music just because just because we're in love? I love this song!

@sarahj5161

7y↑1

That's a translation to fit the song, not word for word?

@Jaxonrwc

6y↑5

1:48

@AndrewRobinson-ee7um

4y↑3

I seem to remember “Once you have found her never let her go” sung twice at the end of the film. Did they cut it out or did I imagine it?

@steverino3447

3y↑2

That was sung just before the intermission.

@activesports8848

4y↑1

懐かしい。9月4日はミッチー・ゲイナーの誕生日、89歳。

@littlesongbird1

43w

In this version it looks the girl is older than her brother but in the 2001 I feel like they were about the same age which made me think there were twins.

@wendywade6135

6y↑2

@superspaz34

12y↑4

nobody cares about the quality its about the song

@PhilWatson

10y↑7

Est-ce que parce que vous m'aimez?

@annyc5814

10y↑3

What a wonderful movie and a spectacular show! La vie est belle! Rodgers and Hammerstein ~ does it get any better than that?

@AnneEDewandeleer

10y↑2

Loved it just as much ! :-)

@PhilWatson

10y

Aggie Chip-Nelson Not in my book Aggie. They were the best! :))

@PhilWatson

10y↑1

Anne E. Dewandeleer Always! :)

@Azianboi42

12y↑3

false. tell me why life is beautiful. tell me why life is happy. tell me why dear Mademoiselle. because you're mine.

@noabaak

8y↑5

평화롭게 푸른 바다 함께 바라보자- K.

@billfrye7198

11y

Kelikd3, not even close.

@sbinsdca

43w

The end of the remake was better

/s

@kati_ranae

11y

I love this song but I cant watch the vid cuz it seems wired and not like how it was when I preformed this musical

@marklapolla4347

8y↑3

Was that supposed to be French?

@anthonyflynn9953

7y↑6

wee

@wyl.22

5y↑1

oui

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