J'ai vendu des fleurs aux terrasses
Quand j'avais dix-sept ans
Mais la roue tourne, le temps passe :
J'ai du fric, à présent.
Eh bien ! Malgré mon compte en banque,
Ma bagnole, mes bijoux,
Certains jours quelque chose me manque.
J'ai l'cafard tout à coup.
Entre Saint-Ouen et Clignancourt,
De temps en temps faut qu'j'fasse un tour
Sur la zone.
Je r'trouve alors tout mon passé,
Le ciel si doux, les durs pavés,
L'herbe jaune
Et, pataugeant dans les ruisseaux,
Des bandes de gosses moitié poulbots,
Moitié faunes,
L'odeur de frites et de lilas.
En frissonnant je r'trouve tout ça
Sur la zone.
A mon avis, les gens du monde
Ne sav'nt pas fair' l'amour.
Au moment critique ils abondent
En bobards, en discours,
Alors cell's qui, comm' moi, connaissent
C'que c'est qu'un mâle, un vrai,
Cell's 'là s'dis'nt : un mec, en vitesse
Et je me rattrap'rai.
Entre Saint-Ouen et Clignancourt,
De temps en temps faut qu'j'fasse un tour
Sur la zone.
On s'envoie chez le gros Léon,
Tandis que chant' l'accordéon,
Un vieux Beaune.
C'est le printemps et c'est le soir.
Calmes et forts, devant l'comptoir,
Des gars trônent
Et dans l'tas on n'a qu'à choisir
Pour apaiser tous les désirs
Sur la zone.
Quelquefois mêm' le cœur s'en mêle
Et pour entendre mieux,
La voix qui dit : "Môm' c'que t'es belle"
On ferme les deux yeux
Mais on n'vit d'amour et d'eau claire
Que dans certains romans,
Alors, bien vite, on s'fait la paire
Sans rêver plus longtemps.
Entre Saint-Ouen et Clignancourt
Je suis rev'nue hier faire un tour
Sur la zone.
Quel chang'ment alors j'ai trouvé :
On démolit de tous côtés.
Quel cyclone...
Plus d'bosquets, plus d'baraqu's en bois,
Plus d'ces chansons qu'étaient pour moi
Une aumône
Et devant mes souv'nirs détruits,
Tout' seul' j'ai pleuré dans la nuit
Sur la zone
Édith Piaf, pseudonimo di Édith Giovanna Gassion (Parigi, 19 dicembre 1915 ? Grasse, 11 ottobre 1963), è stata una cantante francese. È stata una grande interprete del filone realista (chanteuse réaliste). Nota anche come "Passerotto", come veniva amorevolmente chiamata (passerotto infatti nell'argot francese si dice piaf), ha deliziato le folle tra gli anni trenta e sessanta. Ma già ai suoi primi sette anni ha realizzato il suo primo passo verso la musica cantando per suo padre in strada, per qualche spicciolo, la folla la gradì... La sua voce, caratterizzata da mille sfumature, era in grado di passare improvvisamente da toni aspri e aggressivi a toni dolcissimi; inoltre sapeva far percepire in modo unico la gioia con il suono della sua voce. È la cantante che con le sue canzoni ha anticipato il senso di ribellione tipico dell'inquietudine che contraddistinse diversi intellettuali della rive gauche del tempo come: Juliette Greco, Roger Vadim, Boris Vian, Albert Camus ecc. In molti casi era lei stessa l'autrice dei testi delle canzoni che tanto magistralmente interpretava. La vita di Édith Piaf fu sfortunata e costellata da una miriade di fatti negativi: incidenti stradali, coma epatici, interventi chirurgici, delirium tremens e anche un tentativo di suicidio. In una delle sue ultime apparizioni pubbliche la si ricorda piccola e ricurva, con le mani deformate dall'artrite, e con radi capelli; solo la sua voce era inalterata e splendida come sempre. Porta il suo nome un asteroide della fascia principale, scoperto nel 1982: 3772 Piaf. È ricordata anche per un verso di una sua celebre canzone: « Non, rien de rien / Non, je ne regrette rien / Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait, ni le mal / Tout ça m'est bien égal »
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