Tournent les violons - Jean-Jacques Goldman

In Tournent les Violons, from his best-selling 1991 album Chansons pour les pieds (Songs for the feet), French singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman turns into a troubadour-style narrator to tell us a story of hope, desire and disillusion against a medieval-like background. Enjoy this heady melody and sing along with our bilingual transcript below!

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