Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Lyric quest

I've been trying to find the lyrics to "Swinging Belleville Rendezvous", the fun old-timey song featured in "The Triplets of Belleville". Finally found 'em in this entry on some French dude's blog. You'll notice that he doesn't have the lyrics to the refrain, which is partly in English. Translated, his comments why:

"Having not found the words, the part in English was censored. Anyway, English sucks, long live France. In short, it goes like this: 'lalala rendezvous ... doobidoo'"

How do you like my translation of "doubidou"? I also find it amusing that neither the poster nor the commenters (all French folk, one presumes) understand any of the French lyrics. If my French hasn't lapsed too much, I think the first commenter suggests starting a club devoted solely to figuring out what the hell they mean. I guess this song is like the French equivalent of Radiohead or something.

Fortunately, all the lyrics can be found in one of the comments below, along with a link to a video clip of the song, I think -- couldn't actually watch it here at work.

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