p. 107
Alternate Title:
The back door
First Line:
Moi et la belle on avait été au bal
About the Song
Translation(s)
Translation:
THE BACK DOOR
Me and my girl went to the ball,
We passed in all the honky tonks
We came back on the next morning,
The day was about to break,
I entered through the back door.
In the afternoon, I was in the village,
I got so drunk I couldn't walk,
They brought me back home,
There was company, it was foreign people,
I entered through the back door.
My old father, once I arrived,
Tried to change my mind.
I didn't listen, I was too stubborn,
A day will come, my good boy*, you're going to regret it. You entered…
I had plenty of friends when I had money,
Now I have no more money, well they don't come to see me,
I was in the village and I got into trouble,
The law picked me up, I went to jail. We're going…