Ma Vie Coule - Autant en Emporte le Vent

Thanks to StageRose for this translation!

INTRO

It's a Little cold tonight...isn't it?
Well then, it must be me.
Oh, when we are old
We are always cold
Before, I would go out, I would go to the grocer's on the corner,
Or visit a friend
But now,
They are all gone and someone reads to me
The fact remains that in the South,
I was never cold
Ah, the South, you can't know
You in the cities
There is no North, there is no South
There are cities
But the smell of the earth after the rain
The birds in the red sky
The time passes slowly!
That's the South
My mother would only wear white gowns
That would emphasize her hair so black
You know, I was happy when I was little
And then, it was neccessary to leave, and so we left
And we came here
That was 50 years ago, but I have never forgotten the smell
Of the earth after the rain
The birds in the red sky
By the way, I forgot to tell you
I am Ketty Scarlett and
I am the great, great, great grand daughter
of Scarlett O'Hara

THE GOOD VS THE BAD

THE NORTH (A YANKEE)
My friends!
Will we continue to let
Our black brothers be treated
Like animals?

THE CROWD:
NO!

A YANKEE:
The nation has only one law
And the South will respect it
By will or by force
if not...

THE CROWD:
We will make war
It's necessary to make it
We can not leave chained
Half of humanity
They are our brothers
No longer slaves
On earth

God, you who can [do] all
God, be with us
The Good verses the Bad
The Good verses the Bad

A SOUTHERNER:
My friends! The Yankees insult us
Are we going to let them do that?

THE CROWD:
No!

THE SOUTHERNER:
We treat our Negroes well
They need us
As we need them
The North must understand it
if not...

We will make war
It is neccessary to make it
We will squelch all these givers
Of lessons
We will go until the end
It will be them or us
We will battle each other until death

God, you who can [do] all
God, be with us
The Good verses the Bad
The Good verses the Bad

God, you who can [do] all
God, be with us
The Good verses the Bad
The Good verses the Bad
The Good verses the Bad
To each his star.

FREE

(NOTE: Most verbs are written in the order tense so it's 'you go dance, you go run, you go laugh' etc.)

RHETT:
All these people who agitate each other
All these people who shun me
Run, run, run but without me

SCARLETT:
All these angry men
With their pride reversed
But who haven't understood
That their old life is finished

RHETT & SCARLETT:
Oh, dance, dance, dance

SCARLET:
Go, laugh, dance

RHETT:
Go, laugh, dance

SCARLETT:
Forget everything

RHETT & SCARLETT:
Free, free, I am free

SCARLETT:
The world is a merry-go-round
Which turns like a snowball
Turn, turn, turn, but without me

RHETT:
I leave you with your chains
I have enough of mine

SCARLETT:
Keep your certainties
You are men, yes, of the South

RHETT & SCARLETT:
Oh dance, dance, dance
Go, laugh, dance
Forget everything
Your world will collapse
Free, I am free
To live my life, like I have wanted
Free, I am free
And we leave behind, everything they said to us
Free, free, I am free

RHETT, SCARLETT & AND THE CHORUS:
Free, we are free
To live our lives, to live also

RHETT:
To live also

CHORUS:
Oh, oh, free

SCARLETT:
We are free

RHETT:
We are free

SCARLETT:
To live our lives

RHETT & SCARLETT:
And we leave behind
Everything they said to us
Free, free, free
We, we are free
Free, we are free
To live our lives, to live also
Free, free, we are free
Free

SHE

Not all women are
Our mothers, our sisters
Not all women give
Their body, their heart
Not all women dream
Of the same happiness
Not all women laugh
At a man who cries

Me who knows them so well
Who for so long have lied to them
What do I do with her
What do I do with her

She she
She's the evening wind that sweeps my memory
She she
She's alone to whom I will give my life
I will go to hell for her to be proud
To love a man like me
I will make each second
Last forever
Which she will spend in my arms
And I spend my life waiting for her

Even the worst of the bastards
The last of the cowards
Can be loved by them (women)
Without knowing it
Women pardon us
And we betray them
Why we abandon them
Who follow us

Me who knows them so well
Who for so long have lied to them
What do I do with her
What do I do with her

She she
She's the evening wind that sweeps my memory
She...

TO BE BLACK

God, look at us
God, listen to us
How can you watch us suffer
And remain on high without saying anything
What do you want from us?
What do you want from us?
Why have you sold to the devil
Our souls, our hearts, so miserable
You know your heaven on earth
Has a name and it's hell

God, look at us
God, listen to us
You know the men are tired
You know the men have had enough of it
What do you want from us?
What do you want from us?
If you hold the thread of our lives
Then cut it I beg you
You know your heaven on earth
Has a name and it's hell

To be black, it's to know that you are alone
To be black it's only to do what they want
Only to be worth the price of animals that we are
To be black
To be black, it's to believe in no one
To be black, it's to have to what we're given
To be black, it's to lower our eyes full of tears
To pay to God and offer him our souls
To be black

God...

IF THE WIND CARRIES ME:

SCARLETT
If the world must change
It will change but without me
If the men must kill each other
They will kill each other but without me

I was born from my mother
I will die like my mother
And I will leave this earth
Like those before
Like my children

I'm nothing like Scarlett
Not graceful
Or the rest

She dares all
All stops me
She goes away
I remain

I don't have
Her fever
I don't have other dreams
To be loved of love
I wait
She runs
I wait
She runs

I will never be like her
I am not beautiful enough
But no matter if the wind
Carries me
I will die an idiot
But I know that she loves me
Without her all dreams
Are the same

I was born from my mother
I will die like my mother
I will leave this earth
Like those before
Like my children

I wait
She runs

ALONE

I am alone, so alone
Husbands, lovers, don't really have
The wind in the trees, the blood on the sand
Everything is only solitude
That is only habit, to be alone, so alone

I am alone, so alone
Look at me, what do you see?
They crowd me, they spoil me
They say how lucky she is
They admire me, they flatter me
They would like to be me
They are sure that I am, just like the world sees mev But I am alone

I am alone, so alone
Look at me, and believe me
I kick out my heart, but my house is frozen
I sing of happiness, but my voice is broken
I sing and I cry, without ever hiding
But I am alone

I am Scarlett, I am ready for anything
I am offered, and I give myself to you
Love me, love me!

They crowd me, they spoil me
They say how lucky she is
They admire me, they flatter me
They would like to be me
They are sure that I am, such as the world sees me
But I am alone

I am alone, so alone
Husbands, lovers, aren't really
Alone

MY LAND

Look Scarlett, one day all this will be yours
When the time comes, my love
When the time comes
You and your sisters, my love
When the time comes
When the day comes when I die
I will leave you my treasure

Look Scarlett, Look Scarlett
With it we have all

When the time comes, my love
When the time comes
You and your sisters, my love
When the time comes
When God wants me close to him
I will leave you this paradise

My land, my land
It's the face of my mother
On earth, I only have this, my land
On earth when everything makes me despair
My land, my land

My land, my land
It's my paradise, my hell
For it, I have made your mother my mistress
For it, I have forgotten her caresses
For it, my land

God, I know we are here
Only for the time you give us
But while waiting
Let me pretend
To believe that
I am really her lover

I've known women
But, never their tears
They don't make me cry
Like a summer evening
Where the sun ignites
Making my land blush like a woman
And the blood that flows in her
Is more sweet than honey

My land, my and
You know all men have their madness
Mine is to love where I live
And maybe although
If humans
Would love their land more
There would be less war

It's true, I love life
I am crazy about life
I am crazy about you
And your mother
When the great winds of the world
Will have to lay me down on my land
Finally forever,
I would be able to make love to her
To my land, my land

ALL MEN

THE CHEIF SLAVE
The sun burns our eyes, our souls
Runs the sweat runs our tears
We are shadows
We are shadows
On their boats, the iron cuffs around our feet
Bow the back, the back is bowed
They are our brothers that take
Eh oh! eh oh to bow the back!

All men, all men
We are only men
To break our chains
To end hate
Yes but

All men, all men
We are only men
Simply to live like free men
oh oh

One day tomorrow we will fight
And our hands will make theirs
Pay their crimes, wash the wrongs
Go my brothers, look at yourselves!

No this world is not ours
We are shadows
We are shadows eh oh eh oh
To bow the back

All men, all men
We are not only men
To break our chains
To end hate
Yes but
All men, all men
We are not only men
Simply to live like free men
oh oh

And our sons will be half-breeds
Of a world in colour
Far, so far from our fears

All men, all men
We are not only men
To break our chains
To end hate
Yes but
All men, all men
We are not only men
Simply to live like free men
oh oh

SCARLETT

ASHLEY
I have known you a long time
When you were only a child
You saw the world
Like a theatre and you, you would play
You only forget one thing, my sweet
Life is not so rosey for all

[Refrain:]
Scarlett, Scarlett
I am not the man you think
Scarlett, Scarlett
I am a jack not a king
Scarlett, I love you
And maybe it would be the same
if Melanie would not have loved me so much
I would have chosen to be wrong

I've seen war, I've seen death
I was so proud, you are still
And you or you were
You found yourself, I've lost myself
Let me live in peace, my love
Forget all that I was, my love

[Refrain]

SCARLETT:
I have loved you all my life
And you betray me, my love
Your poor heart will suffer
But my you tear, my love

[Refrain]

WHORE

Of course women hate us
For her we are worse than the plague
When their husbands come to see us
They [the wives] remain alone without knowing
That all the efforts they make
To keep them at home
Sends them flying to our (lit.) lower parts
Their places that becomes our places
Their places that becomes our places

Whore, whore
That's what they call
The women who make men pay
Whore, I am a whore
I win and lose my life

Whore, whore
That's what they call
The women who make men pay
Whore, I am a whore
I win and lose my life
With fellas in a bed
Whore, life is hard
For all the impure women
They say that the whores have no heart
If they open mine they will find unhappiness

Whore, whore
That's what they name
The women who make men pay
Whore, we are whores (We are what we are)
We win and lose our lives
With fellas in a bed
Whore, life is hard
For all the impure women
They say that the whores have no heart
If they open mine they will find unhappiness

Of course women hate us

MY LIFE RUNS

Why did nobody tell us
What life is like?
Why the world is so cowardly
All they show us, they hide from us

If God exists
Why am I so sad?

[REFRAIN]
Run, my life runs
And I run with it
Run, my life runs
And I dance on its wings
Let God guide me
In this woid
Where nobody feelings anything anymore
Run, my life runs
The flowers fade, the women too
They know for what, they know for who
I wanted life to be like the sun
But the rain that falls wakes me

If God exists
Why am I so sad?

[REFRAIN]

Run...
And yet I have believed so much in him
Yes, I have waited for him all my life
But love hides at the bottom of hearts
And the women cry
The women die
For him

Let God guide me
In this void
where I run
Run, my life runs

Run, my life runs,
and I run with it
My life runs
And I dance on its wings
I will not love anyone anymore
I will not believe in love anymore
Done with forevers
Run, my life runs, runs

WE ARE NOT

SCARLETT
A heart of a child in a body of a woman
Fear inside, outside charms
The stockings glide, the heart too
The mother of vice, the daughter of who

The eyes of men are daggers
Metronomes, always slow
They admire us then insult us
They treat us like a queen, they treat us...

REFRAIN:
We are not what you want
We are not what you believe
We are worse than that, worse than that

We are not what you see
We are not what you think
We are worse than that, worse than that

We are not, we are not
Like that

Look at you, look at me
Who is the fool, who is the king
We are flowers, you fade us
If you prick yourself, it is not necessary...to cry

REFRAIN

We are not mothers, daughters
Lace, pretty eyes that shine
We are not, we are not like that

CHORUS:
We are not

SCARLETT:
A heart of a child, a body of a woman

CHORUS:
We are not

SCARLETT:
The stockings glide, the heart too

CHORUS:
We are worse than that, worse than that
We are not

SCARLETT:
We are flowers, you make us fade

CHORUS:
We are not

SCARLETT:
If you prick yourself, it is not necessary to cry

CHORUS & SCARLETT:
We are worse than that, worse than that
We are not, we are not
Like that
We are not

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