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Dégénérations (Mes Aïeux) English Translation

I translated this beautiful Quebecois song into singable, rhyming English. The rough demo got such a big response, I decided to do a better, cleaner version. Photo montage is of my late grandmother's property on the St John's river near Jacksonville, FL. (spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0eu0IO...) Dégénérations, by Mes Aïeux, translated to English by David Mathewes Your great great grandfather cleared a little piece of land Your great grandfather helped to plow the field by hand And your grandfather took it, made it grow and made it thrive Then your father sold it off and took a steady nine-to-five As for you, young man, in the city all alone In a one-bedroom loft winter chills you to the bone When you dream at night you feel the shovel in your hand as you walk the fields of that little piece of land well now Your great great grandmum She had fourteen kids to raise and then Your great grandmum nearly followed in her ways Then your grandmother had three and decided to prevent And your mom had just the one and she was an accident As for you, little girl, a different partner every night And if anything goes wrong, you go to town and put it right But in the silent morning you can almost hear the sound Of a big kitchen table all the children gathered round Your great grandfather's dad Was a depression-era man And your grandfather's dad Counted pennies in the hand And thank God, your granddad became a millionaire Then your dad retired early to live off of his share As for you, young man, you owe your soul to uncle sam You can't even get a loan, and nobody gives a damn And so fight the temptation to commit armed robbery you read those books about how to embrace simplicity Your great great grandmom and dad They knew how to throw it down Then your great grandmom and dad went a-swinging through this town And your grandmom and dad They sang twist and shout all night Your mom and dad met at a disco and it was love at first sight As for you, my friend, how do your evenings go? Can you break away from the television glow Some things never change under any circumstance Put your new shoes on kid cos we're going out to dance!