Hubert Giraud wrote this tune, 'Sous le ciel de Paris' (Under Paris Skies) in 1951. My making this YouTube was just one of those things, as Cole Porter would say.
Bobby Darin recorded his signature hit, "Beyond the Sea", on Christmas Eve 1959. Other than the borrowed tune and the word "sea", there is no resemblance between Charles Trenet's "La Mer" and Darin's recording. The poetry of "La Mer" is lost in "Beyond the Sea."
Here it is, sung in French by Dalida, with my English captions.
The closing of an Autumn evening is like the running of a hound across the moor. Night is a good herd: she brings all creatures home.
-- from an Irish verse
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings
In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.
So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.
--DH Lawrence
Michel, je te souhaite un très joyeux anniversaire pour tes 75 ans.
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