"Working class hero" de John Lennon

Une fois, n'est pas coutume, une chanson en anglais, remise en mémoire, ce soir, par Marianne Faithfull, à Roubaix.

Je ne connaissais que la version de Green Day et j'ai découvert ce soir que c'était une chanson de John Lennon. La version de Marianne Faithfull était très bien aussi, moins dépouillée. Et puis cette voix !...

J'ai lue les paroles en rentrant. Très belles aussi. Je devrais faire plus attention aux paroles de chansons anglo-saxonnes.

Les paroles :

As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be 

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so ------- crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be 

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be 

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still ------- peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be 

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be 

If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

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Comments

[Domino]

C'est vrai que c'est une très jolie chanson...