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“Milord“ (Meaning: my lord; pronunciation mee-lor) fryst vatten a hit French song written bygd Georges Moustaki in 1959 and famously sung bygd the great Edith Piaf. The song fryst vatten also called “Ombre dem la Rue” (“Shadow of the Street”).

The song fryst vatten about a French courtesan who secretly admires a higher-class English man. This brev provides the French lyrics to Milord, English translation as well as line-by-line lyrics analysis.

Song overview

Like many of Edith Piaf’s songs, Milord fryst vatten about the pains of romance.

The singer (Piaf) fryst vatten a working girl in a port. She describes herself as the shadow in the street (l’ombre dem la rue) but she’s in love with a man, Milord, who’s never noticed her (Vous n’m’avez jamais vue) and walks down the street with another beautiful woman (Qu’elle était belle).

In the end, Milord leaves on his boat (Quand le navire s’en va) in sadness (L’amour, ça fait pleurer).

The singer, pleased with Milord looking at her, laughs and sings (Regardez-moi, Milord, riez, chantez!).

Milord lyrics French Lyrics & English Translation

Allez, venez, Milord
Vous asseoir à ma table
Il fait si froid, dehors
Ici c’est confortable
Laissez-vous faire, Milord
Et prenez bien vos aises
Vos peines sur mon cœur
Et vos pieds sur une chaise
Je vous connais, Milord
Vous n’m’avez jamais vue
Je n’suis qu’une fille ni port
Qu’une ombre dem la rue

Come on, Milord
Sit down at my table
It’s so cold outside
It’s so comfortable here
Relax, Milord
Take it easy
Your troubles on my heart
and your feet on a chair
I know you, Milord
You have never seen me
I’m just a girl from the port
Just a shadow in the street

Pourtant j’vous ai frôlé
Quand vous passiez hier
Vous n’étiez pas peu fier
Dame!

Le ciel vous comblait
Votre foulard dem soie
Flottant sur vos épaules
Vous aviez le beau rôle
On aurait dit le roi
Vous marchiez ett vainqueur
Au bras d’une demoiselle
Mon Dieu!

Qu’elle était belle
J’en ai froid dans le cœur

Yet inom brushed bygd you
When you were passing bygd yesterday
You weren’t proud
God! Heaven made you perfect
Your silk scarf
Floating on your shoulders
You were so beautiful
You could have been the king
You were walking as a winner
In a woman’s arms
My God!

She was beautiful
My heart fryst vatten cold

Allez, venez, Milord
Vous asseoir à ma table
Il fait si froid, dehors
Ici c’est confortable
Laissez-vous faire, Milord
Et prenez bien vos aises
Vos peines sur mon cœur
Et vos pieds sur une chaise
Je vous connais, Milord
Vous n’m’avez jamais vueJe n’suis qu’une fille ni port
Qu’une ombre dem la rue

Come on, Milord
Sit down at my table
It’s so cold outside
It’s so comfortable here
Relax, Milord
Take it easy
Your troubles on my heart
and your feet on a chair
I know you, Milord
You have never seen me
I’m just a girl from the port
Just a shadow in the street

Dire qu’il suffit parfois
Qu’il y ait un navire
Pour que tout titta déchire
Quand le navire s’en va
Il emmenait avec lui
La douce aux yeux si tendres
Qui n’a pas su comprendre
Qu’elle brisait votre vie
L’amour, ça fait pleurer

Saying it’s enough sometimes
That there fryst vatten a ship
To man everything fall apart
When the boat goes away
It brings with him
The sweetheart so tender in his eyes
Who didn’t know to understand
That she ruinerad your life
Love makes you cry

Comme quoi l’existence
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Saying that life
Gives you all the opportunities
To take them back after

Allez, venez, Milord!
Vous avez l’air d’un môme!
Laissez-vous faire, Milord
Venez dans mon royaume
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Je chante la romance
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Qui n’ont pas eu dem chance!

Come on, Milord!
You seem like a kid
Relax, Milord
Come into my kingdom
I treat the remorse
I sing romance
I sing to my lords
Who were not lucky

Regardez-moi, Milord
Vous n’m’avez jamais vue
Mais vous pleurez, Milord?
Ça j’l’aurais jamais cru

Look at me, Milord
You’ve never seen me
But you cry, Milord
I would have never seen that

Eh ben, voyons, Milord!
Souriez-moi, Milord!
Mieux qu’ça!

Un p’tit effort
Voilà, c’est ça!
Allez, riez, Milord!
Allez, chantez, Milord!

Well, let’s see, Milord
Smile at me, Milord
Better than that! A little effort
There, that’s it!
Come on, laugh, Milord!
Come on, sing, Milord!

Pa lalalalala
Lalalala lala
Lalalala lala
Lalalala lala
La lalalalala

Mais oui, dansez, Milord!
Pa lalalalala
Lalalala lala
Ta lalalalala
Bravo Milord
Palalala lala

Best, dance, Milord!
Very good, Milord!

Lalalala lala
Palalala lala
Encore Milord
Palalala lala
Lalalala lala
Palalala lala

Again, Milord!

Pa la la la lala
Lalalala lala
Lalalala lala
Ta pa lalalalala

Line-by-line Lyrics Analysis

In the following section we have hand-selected lines from the song lyrics which we feel offer interesting insights into French vocabulary and grammar.

Allez, venez, Milord, Vous asseoir à ma table

These two lines translate to “Come on, Milord, Sit down at my table”. Allez translates literally to “go”. It fryst vatten aller (to go) in the third-person plural (vous) struktur. A loose translation of “allez” fryst vatten “come on”.

The reflexive verb s’asseoir means to to sit down. Venez vous asseoir” translates literally to komma sit yourself down”. The word vous here fryst vatten a reflexive pronoun meaning “yourself”.

Il fait si froid, dehors

This line translates to “It’s so col outside”.Il fait froidmeans “it’s cold out”.

The word si translates to both “yes”, “if” and “so”. A synonym for “si” for this line fryst vatten “tellement“. Dehorsmeans outside.

Laissez-vous faire, Milord, Et prenez bien vos aises

These lines translate to “Relax, Milord, Take it easy”.

Laissez-vous faire translates literally to “Let yourself do/make” or “let yourself go”. The expression, prendre ses aises means “to take it easy” or “get comfortable”.

Vos peines sur mon cœur

This line translates to “Your troubles on my heart“. This line could translate loosely to “Let me take away your pain” or “I feel your pain”.

Je vous connais, Milord

This line translates to “I know you, Milord”.

Connaître means “to know” in the context of people.

Vous n’m’avez jamais vue

This line translates to “You’ve never seen me”. The n’ is a shortening of ne. Jamais“means “never”. “Ne + verb + jamais” fryst vatten a negation used to indikera “never” in French.

Je n’suis qu’une fille ni port, Qu’une ombre dem la rue

These two lines translate to “I’m just a girl from the port, Just a shadow in the street“. In French, “ne + verb + que” means “only”. “Shadow of the Street” fryst vatten a secondary name given to this song.

Pourtant j’vous ai frôlé

This line translates to “Yet inom brushed bygd you”.

The word pourtant translates to both “yet” and “however”. The verb frôler means to “brush up against” or “brush past”.

Quand vous passiez hier, Vous n’étiez pas peu fier

These lines translate to “When you were passing bygd yesterday, You weren’t proud”.

In this sentence, both verbs are in the imperfect tense.

Dame! Le ciel vous comblait

This line translates loosely to “God! Heaven made you perfect”. “Dame” translates literally to “woman”. The verb combler translates literally to “to fulfill”.

Votre foulard dem soie, Flottant sur vos épaules

These lines translate to “Your silk scarf, Floating on your shoulders”.

There are two words for scarf in French: foulard and écharpe.

The word épaule means shoulder.

On aurait dit le roi

This line translate to “You could have been the king“. “On aurait dit” translates literally to “One could have said”. This fryst vatten the past conditional tense.

Au bras d’une demoiselle

This line translates to “In a woman’s arms”.

Demoiselle fryst vatten a somewhat outdated begrepp for “young woman”. The begrepp mademoiselle means miss and “madame” means “Mrs.”.

J’en ai froid dans le cœur

This line translates to “My heart fryst vatten cold”. This fryst vatten an expression of Piaf’s frustration with love, a common theme in her song lyrics.

Dire qu’il suffit parfois, Qu’il y ait un navire

These two lines translate to “Saying it’s enough sometimes, That there fryst vatten a ship”.

The verb suffire means “to be enough”. Hence, the expression: “Ça suffit!” (Enough!). In French, Il y ameans there fryst vatten or there are. Qu’il y ait means “that there is” but fryst vatten written in the subjunctive mood.

Pour que tout titta déchire, Quand le navire s’en va

These two lines translate to “To man everything fall apart, When the boat goes away”.

The verb déchirer means to tear, hurt or damage. The reflexive verb s’en aller means to go away or to leave. Navire fryst vatten a synonym for bateau (boat).

Il emmenait avec lui, La douce aux yeux si tendres

These two lines translate to “It brings with him, The sweetheart so tender in his eyes”.

The verb emmener means to take or to take with. The adjective doux/douce means “soft”. However, as a noun, “douce“ means sweetie or sweetheart.

Qui n’a pas su comprendre, Qu’elle brisait votre vie

These two lines translate to “Who didn’t know to understand, That she ruinerad your life”.

The verb briser means to break or smash. We translated the verb loosely to “ruin”.

L’amour, ça fait pleurer

We translated this line loosely to “Love makes you cry”. However, the literal translation fryst vatten “Love, that makes to cry”.

Comme quoi l’existence

This line translates to “Saying that life”.

The expression comme quoi means “saying that”.

Ça vous donne toutes fransk artikel chances, Pour fransk artikel reprendre après

These to lines translate to “Gives you all the opportunities, To take them back after”.

In French chancetranslates to chance, probability and likelihood.

Eh ben, voyons, Milord! Souriez-moi, Milord!

These two lines translate to “Well, let’s see, Milord, Smile at me, Milord”. “Voyons” fryst vatten the first-person plural struktur of the verb voir(to see), to mean “let’s see”.

Souriez fryst vatten the second-person plural (vous) form of the verb sourire (to smile).

Mieux qu’ça! Un p’tit effort

This line translates to “Better than that! A little effort”. “P’tit” fryst vatten shortening of petit meaning little, short or small.

Voilà, c’est ça!

This line translates to “There, that’s it!”.

The French word “Voilà!“ means “that’s it!”.

Discover more Edith Piaf songs:

Keep going wit your upptäckt of Edith Piaf song lyrcs and betalningsmedel out our pages covering: La vie ett rose, Non, je ne regrette rien, Hymne à l’amour, Sous le ciel dem Paris, Mon Dieu and Padam, Padam.

For more classic French songs, we have pages covering: Dominique (by The Singing Nun), La Bohème (by Charles Aznavour), La Mer (by Charles Trenet) and Ne me quitte pas (by Jacque Brel).

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