Kenneth Williams performs a song comprising French words absorbed into the English language. Wonderful performance. Taken from 'An Audience With Kenneth Williams' recorded for ITV (UK) in 1982.
This is such a heartbreaking and beautiful song. I find it wonderful that I can be so moved by a song even though I unfortunately do not speak a word of French, but music transcends all barriers. I have been told the song is about a young man who is about to go off to war and these are his parting words to his mother whom he knows he may never see again, but in a strange way, I think I already knew that. Some things simply do not need translation.
@@alicehammond7438 lol that's kinda what I was going to say! .. hehehe.. It mast have been the ménage et toi at Hammersmith at the start that threw them.. X
@@alicehammond7438 It's pretty obvious, the joke of the song itself is supposed to be that it sounds all meaningful and everything but it's just a list of french words that have been adopted into English.
Kenneth Williams' 1987 interview with Sue Lawley on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs is available from their archives. Love that man. Love that radio programme. You can find his DID interview here: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/2b2002fd
I've heard another song that does this to the tune of Edith Piaf's 'La Vie en Rose', including rhyming 'au revoir' and 'abattoir', but this is even funnier.
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