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Artist/Band: Jacques Brel
Lyrics for Song: Jackie (La Chanson De Jacky)
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Jacques Brel



And if one day I should become a singer with a Spanish bum

Who sings for women of great virtue

I'd sing to them with a guitar I borrowed from coffee bar

Well, what you don't know doesn't hurt you

My name would be Antonio and all my bridges I would burn

And if I gave them some they'd know, I expect something in return

I'd have to get drunk every night to talk about virility

With some old grandmother who might

Be decked out like a Christmas tree



And tho' pink elephants I'd see, though I'd be drunk as I could be

I'd sing the song they sang to me

About the time they called me Jackie

If I could be for only an hour, if I could be for an hour every day

If I could be for just one little hour

Cute, cute, cute in a stupid-ass way



And if I joined the social whirl, became procurer of young girls

Then I would have my own bordellos

My record would be number one and I'd sell records by the ton

All sung by many other fellows

My name would then be handsome Jack and I'd sell boats of opium

Whiskey that came from Twickenham, authentic queers and phony virgins

I'd have a bank on every finger, a finger in every country

And every country ruled by me, I still know where I'd want to be



Locked up inside my opium den, surrounded by some Chinamen

I'd sing the song that I sang then about the time they called me Jackie

If I could be for only an hour, if I could be for an hour every day

If I could be for just one little hour

Cute, cute, cute in a stupid-ass way



Now tell me, wouldn't it be nice that if one day in Paradise

I sang for all the ladies up there

And they would sing along with me, we'd be so happy there to be

'Cause down below is really nowhere

My name would then be Jupiter and I would know where I was going

And then I would become all knowing with my beard so long and flowing

If I became deaf dumb and blind, because I pitied all mankind

And broke my heart to make things right, I know that every single night



When my angelic work was through, the angels and the devil too

Would sing my childhood song to me

About the time they called me Jackie

If I could be for only an hour, if I could be for an hour every day

If I could be for just one little hour

Cute, cute, cute in a stupid-ass way


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Jacques Brel


Jacques Brel
"Other Songs - Jacques Brel"


1. Alone (Seul)
2. Bachelor's Dance (La Bourrée Du Célibataire)
3. Carousel (La Valse À Mille Temps)
4. Desperate Ones (Les Désespérés)
5. I Loved (J'Aimais)
6. If We Only Have Love (Quand On N'A Que L'Amour)
7. Jackie (La Chanson De Jacky)
10. Marathon (Les Flamandes)
11. Next (Au Suivant)
13. Sons Of... (Fils De...)
14. The Girls And The Dogs (Les Filles Et Les Chiens)
15. Timid Frieda (Les Timides)
16. You're Not Alone (Jef)
17. La Chanson De Van Horst
18. Les Moutons
19. Quand Maman Reviendra
20. The Bulls
21. The Old Folks