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  • xDdRmAnIaCx
    FFR Player
    • Nov 2003
    • 291

    #1

    Need help with French Lyrics.

    Now I know this isn't the greatest place to ask for homework, but I am in desperate need of help. I have a French project, in which I have to relate a song to adolescence. Now my French may not be up to the standards of this song, and I am having some troubles with the metaphors, figures of speech, and all the other small things that cannot be translated literally.

    I will provide the lyrics if someone can help me, but I need to know if there is anyone who can provide me with a brief summary of the song.

    If so, please post here, or message me on aim @ MusikNiK, or on MSN at NiK_0_0(at)hotmail.com

    The song is Julie by Les Colocs.

    Thanks,

    NiK

  • super-smashman
    FFR Player
    • Nov 2004
    • 2638

    #2
    Re: Need help with French Lyrics.

    Why didn't you just post the lyrics here?

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    • xDdRmAnIaCx
      FFR Player
      • Nov 2003
      • 291

      #3
      Re: Need help with French Lyrics.

      Je l'ai rencontrée au dépanneur
      A s'achetait une grosse liqueur
      J'ai dit pourquoi du Pepsi
      A dit c'est parce que je m'appelle Julie
      J'ai dit ah oui, ah bon!

      A m'a demande si c'était
      La première fois que je rencontrais
      Une Julie aux cheveux noirs
      J'avoue que c'est à première fois a soir
      A dit: "Julie ça va mieux pour les blondes je trouve"
      Pantoute!

      REFRAIN:
      Wo! Wo! Wo! Ma petite Julie
      Si t'étais pas si jeune je t'aurais pris
      Dis-toi que je t'un gars patient
      Pis viens me revoir quand t'auras vingt ans

      Bi li tibibop tilibibop po poup...

      On est allé au cinéma
      Pour voir un film de Coppola
      A dit: "j'aime mieux les Fellini
      Pis Marcello Mastroianni:
      J'ai dit: "Ah ben! Ça va Mal!"

      On est allé voir son papa
      le PDG de Coca-Cola
      Y'a dit:"Voyons ma petite Julie
      T'es prends ben vieux tes petits amis!"
      J'ai dit: "Ben toi mon vieux tabarnouche, hein!"

      REFRAIN

      Et pis un beau soir de printemps
      Julie pleurait sur le divan
      Ses larmes ont coule jusqu'à moi
      Si bien que je me suis reveille
      J'ai dit: "Voyons Julie la!"
      "Que c'est qu'y'a?"

      Elle a nage jusqu'à mon lit
      J'ai cru qu'elle allait se noyer
      A me dit: "Écoute-moi chéri
      Tu sais je ne veux pas te quitter"
      J'ai dit "Ben oui! Ben non!
      Ben oui! Ben oui! Ben non!"

      REFRAIN

      Aujourd'hui Julie a vingt ans
      Et est mariée depuis deux ans
      Avec un gars de chicoutimi
      Je vous dit qu'y'a un maudit bel accent
      J'ai dit: "Teindu? Teindu quoi?"

      Elle a fait teindre ses beaux cheveux
      Tendus platine comme Marilyn
      On s'est parle une coupe de fois
      Au téléphone c'était ben le fun
      Mais on se voit pu
      On se voit pu pantoute

      Wo! Wo! Wo! Ma petite Julie
      Moi chu reste jeune
      Mais toi t'as mal vieilli
      Dis toi que je t'un gars patient
      Pis viens me revoir quand t'auras cent ans
      Viens me revoir quand t'auras cent ans


      Please help me!

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      • super-smashman
        FFR Player
        • Nov 2004
        • 2638

        #4
        Re: Need help with French Lyrics.

        Originally posted by xDdRmAnIaCx
        Bi li tibibop tilibibop po poup...
        rofl

        I would translate it but I'm writing an essay atm.

        ...yes and posting. I can do both...

        PS: It uses a lot of faggity slang and words that just don't exist.

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        • xDdRmAnIaCx
          FFR Player
          • Nov 2003
          • 291

          #5
          Re: Need help with French Lyrics.

          lol Yeah.

          Thats EXACTLY the kind of stuff I cannot translate.

          Bilitibiboptilibiboppopoup!

          Take that Grade 10 French.



          By the way, I don't want a line by line translation, just an idea of WHAT is going on, I can hopefully pick out the adolescent references myself.
          Last edited by xDdRmAnIaCx; 05-16-2006, 05:13 PM.

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          • YungYung
            FFR Player
            • Jul 2005
            • 810

            #6
            Re: Need help with French Lyrics.

            Generally, the song is about a guy who meets this girl named Julie and feels attracted to her, especially her long black hair. But unfortunately he's way older than her. Then they go out a few times to the movies, and he meets her dad later. Then one day he finds Julie crying on the porch and asks what happened. Julie's crying about how she doesn't want to leave him (my guess is that she has to move away)

            A few years later she's 20 and they meet again. She's been married for 2 years now, and she's completely changed. The black hair he once admired has been dyed blond. Of course they chatted and stuff on the phone, but they never saw eachother again in person.

            Then there's a metaphore about how the guy's still young but the girl got older (meaning the guy hasn't forgotten what they once had, but Julie has moved on).

            That's a brief summary of what I got out of it. Hope it helps =)
            clairmai lol hvam lol

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            • xDdRmAnIaCx
              FFR Player
              • Nov 2003
              • 291

              #7
              Re: Need help with French Lyrics.

              Thanks YungYung, thats exactly what I needed. Could you point me to the line where the metaphor of "the guy's still young but the girl got older"?

              I could definately use that.

              Thanks, NiK

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              • Afrobean
                Admiral in the Red Army
                • Dec 2003
                • 13262

                #8
                Re: Need help with French Lyrics.

                Wow.

                For once, someone posted a "do my homework for me" thread and someone actually did it for them.

                Ha!

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                • xDdRmAnIaCx
                  FFR Player
                  • Nov 2003
                  • 291

                  #9
                  Re: Need help with French Lyrics.

                  Well I actually have to prepare a 8-10 minute speech on how the song relates to adolesence, and provide a biography and discography of the group.

                  But Yung Yung has done exactly what I needed!

                  So I'm not screwed.

                  Afrobean. :@

                  NiK

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                  • YungYung
                    FFR Player
                    • Jul 2005
                    • 810

                    #10
                    Re: Need help with French Lyrics.

                    The metaphore is:

                    Wo! Wo! Wo! Ma petite Julie
                    Moi chu reste jeune
                    Mais toi t'as mal vieilli
                    clairmai lol hvam lol

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                    • JLoAct
                      FFR Player
                      • Apr 2006
                      • 60

                      #11
                      Re: Need help with French Lyrics.

                      why don't you just use FreeTranslation.com?

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