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#45 is a classic French song! Incredible to see that it's 2000+ years old! Ma mère m'a donné cent sous pour m'acheter des bretelles J'ai gardé mes cent
by bambax 5y ago
#45 is a classic French song! Incredible to see that it's 2000+ years old!
Ma mère m'a donné cent sous pour m'acheter des bretelles
J'ai gardé mes cent sous pour aller au bordel
Chemin faisant, j'ai rencontré grand-mère
Où vas-tu mon enfant, je m'en vais au bordel
Garde donc tes cent sous, je ferai bien l'affaire
J'ai gardé mes cent sous et j'ai baisé grand-mère
Chemin rentrant j'ai rencontré mon père
D'où viens-tu mon enfant, je viens de baiser grand-mère
Enfant de salaud, tu viens de baiser ma mère
Salaud toi-même, t'as bien baisé la mienne
losely translated:
My mother gave me a fiver to buy suspenders
I saved the money to go to the whorehouse instead
Along the way, I met Grandma
Where are you going she said; I said I'm going to the whorehouse
Keep your money, I'll do it for free
I kept the money and fucked grandma
On the way home I met my father
What's up said my father; I just fucked grandma, said I
Son of a bitch! you fucked my mother
SOB yourself, you fucked mine
- gadders 5y agoReminds me of the graffiti I saw in a toilet once. The first person had written "I shagged your Mum." Underneath in different handwriting was "Go home Dad, you're pissed" [drunk].
- moonchild 5y agoWhat's the meaning of 'sous'? Some form of currency? Also: I'm curious why you translated 'bordel' as 'whorehouse' rather than 'brothel', as the latter seems etymologically related.
- tremon 5y agoYes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_sol#The_sou_in_French_expressions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_sol#The_sou_in_French_e...
- bambax 5y agoYes, sous were an old monetary unit; 100 sous amounted to 5 francs; see https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cent_sous https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cent_sous I translate by fiver because of this, but 5 francs 150 years ago were a lot more money than $5 today. Then the word sous evolved to be synonymous with money, but in the song it doesn't mean "money" generally, it means a specific amount of money. Whorehouse sounds more idiomatic to me than "brothel", especially in a popular song like this one; brothel to me is a more refined/scholarly word maybe? But I may be wrong, I'm not a native English speaker.