There are two verbs for “to know” in French: “ savoir“ and “ connaître“. This line translates to “I know you, Milord”. This line could translate loosely to “Let me take away your pain” or “I feel your pain”. This line translates to “Your troubles on my heart”. The expression, “ prendre ses aises“ means “to take it easy” or “get comfortable”. “Laissez-vous faire” translates literally to “Let yourself do/make” or “let yourself go”. These lines translate to “Relax, Milord, Take it easy”. Laissez-vous faire, Milord, Et prenez bien vos aises This page on offers some audio samples of dehors. A synonym for “si” for this line is “ tellement“. The word “ si“ translates to both “yes”, “if” and “so”. This page on our site covers French weather expressions.

This line translates to “It’s so col outside”. This page on our site covers reflexive verbs in detail. The word “vous” here is a reflexive pronoun meaning “yourself”. “Venez vous asseoir” translates literally to come sit yourself down”. The reflexive verb “s’asseoir” means to to sit down. This page on our site covers the verb allerin detail. A loose translation of “allez” is “come on”. It is “aller” (to go) in the third-person plural (vous) form. These two lines translate to “Come on, Milord, Sit down at my table”. In the following section we have hand-selected lines from the song lyrics which we feel offer interesting insights into French vocabulary and grammar.Īllez, venez, Milord, Vous asseoir à ma table The singer, please with Milord to look at her, laugh and sing (Regardez-moi, Milord, riez, chantez!). In the end, Milord leaves on his boat (Quand le navire s’en va) in sadness (L’amour, ça fait pleurer). She describes herself as the shadow in the street (l’ombre de 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).

The singer (Piaf) is a working girl in a port.

Like many of Edith Piaf’s songs, Milord is about the pains of romance. This post provides the French lyrics to Milord, English translation as well as line-by-line lyrics analysis.

The song is about a French courtesan who secretly admires a higher-class English man. The song is also called “Ombre de la Rue” (“Shadow of the Street”). “ Milord” (Meaning: my lord pronunciation milɔʁ) is a hit French song written by Georges Moustaki in 1959 and famously sung by the great Edith Piaf.

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