To go to work, I bought a car, then a motorbike, then a bicycle… and we’ll all finish on foot!
It was one of our fellow readers who sent me this song by Brassens which is so topical.
During the war, we also had our bikes stolen!
The sequence looks just like what we are currently experiencing.
A knowledge, a collapse.
Charles SANNAT
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To get to my office, I had bought a car
A nice front-wheel drive that sped like the wind
It was July 39, I was pumping up like an ox
In my bourgeois pride to have a car of my own
But come September, and I’m off to war
Eight months later, returning
Requisition of my eleven light horses
Nein verboten provisionally
To get to my office so I buy a motorbike
A pretty moped going forty an hour
Astride my teuf-teuf I puffed up like an ox
In my bourgeois pride to go home so quickly
It consumes almost no gas
But almost not, it’s still too much
Now my license has been revoked
I had to sell my motorcycle
To get to my office so I buy a bike
A very nice all nickel-plated with a chain and two keys
Mounted on brand new tires, I inflated like an ox
In my bourgeois pride to have a bike of my own
I’ve had a dozen of them in quick succession.
On me periodically stole them
As each of them was worth the price of a Citroën
I was ruined very quickly
To get to my office so I took the subway
It’s not very expensive and it’s warm in winter.
Alma, Iéna and Marboeuf I swelled up like an ox
In my bourgeois pride to go home so quickly
Alas by economy of light
On a well closed stations
And then it was, it was the whole line
That we suppressed without remission
To get to my office I put on two good boots
And I walked four times a day back and forth
The Tuileries, the Pont-Neuf, I swelled up like an ox
Proud to suffer from my corns for such a pretty decor
Alas, soon, I will have no more shoes
The cobbler no longer resoles
But as a prudent and shrewd man
For the future I have planned everything
I will learn tomorrow to stand on my hands
I won’t go very fast of course but I won’t wear shoes anymore
I will see the world from bottom to top, maybe it’s funnier
I won’t lose anything by it
It’s not funny up there