Bastille Day July 12, 2008
Posted by Mark Folse in Toulouse Street.Tags: Bastille Day, La Marsellaise, New Orleans, Ourselves Alone, Sinn Fein
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La Marsellaise is such a lovely song.
Aux armes, citoyens ! To arms, citizens!
Formez vos bataillons ! Form your battalions!
Marchons, marchons ! Let’s march, let’s march!
Qu’un sang impur May a tainted blood
Abreuve nos sillons ! Soak our furrows!
Aux armes, citoyens ! To arms, citizens!
Formons nos bataillons ! Let us form our battalions!
Marchons, marchons ! Let us march, let us march!
Qu’un sang impur May their tainted blood
Abreuve nos sillons ! Soak our furrows!
How would you say in French: We will armor the levees with their skulls?
or at these independent New Orleans bookstores:
Nous armure les levées avec leurs crânes
We will armor the levees with their skulls
Marée croissante longtemps de phase…trois
Long Live Rising Tide…3
Écrasez l’infamie
Viva La Pucelle d’Orléans!
Humide de banque de joyeux anniversaire
One wonders how it would sound as played by a brass band of “la Nouvelle-Orleans”.