Artist: Georges Brassens
Title: Friends first
Date de sortie: 1964
Lyrics of: Friends First – Georges Brassens
No, it wasn't the raft
From the Medusa, this boat
Let us tell each other at the bottom of the ports
Say at the bottom of the ports
He sailed like a relaxed father
On the ducks' grand pond
And it was called Friends First
Friends first
Its fluctuat nec mergitur
It wasn't literature
No offense to the spell casters
To the spell casters
His captain and his sailors
Were not children of bastards
But free shipping friends
Friends first
They weren't luxury friends
Little Castor and Pollux
People from Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah
They weren't chosen friends
By Montaigne and La Boétie
On their stomachs, they hit each other hard
Friends first
They weren't angels either
They hadn't read the Gospel
But they loved each other with full sail
All sails out
Jean, Pierre, Paul and company
It was their only litany
Their Credo, their Confiteor
To friends first
At the slightest blow from Trafalgar
It was friendship that took the quarter
She was the one who showed them the north
Showed them the north
And when they were in distress
That their arms were throwing SOS
They looked like semaphores
Friends first
At the meeting of good friends
There weren't often rabbits
When one of them was missing on board
That's because he was dead
Yes, but never, ever
His hole in the water didn't close
A hundred years later, rascal of fate
He was still missing
I've taken a lot of boats
But the only one who held out
Who has never changed course
But turned around
Sailing like a relaxed father
On the ducks' grand pond
And it was called Friends First
Friends first
I've taken a lot of boats
But the only one who held out
Who has never changed course
But turned around
Sailing like a relaxed father
On the ducks' grand pond
And it was called Friends First
Friends first