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S'il Vous Pla​î​t

from Simple Sentences 1992 by Aubrey Atwater Originals

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    SIMPLE SENTENCES (1992)
    Solo recording of original songs by Aubrey Atwater. An album of original works by Aubrey, released in May 1992. She dedicated it to the students and staff of Dorcas Place Parent Literacy Center in Providence, RI, where she worked at the time.

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S'il Vous Plaît
Words and Music by Aubrey Atwater, ©1983 Rabbit Island Music

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S'il Vous Plaît, ecoutez ma chanson
Et vous compredrez

Il y a une femme dans ma ville
Elle est debout
Au coin de la rue
Dans le seuil d'une porte
D'une construction abandonee

Elle est jeune comme moi
Mais elle est folle
Elle porte des chiffons
Des sacs de plastique
Autour de ses pieds si gonfles

Et quand on la passé
On se demande
Pourquoi nous sommes tous ici

On voit ses yeux qui regardent
Attentivement, un monde insense
Pres du seuil d'une porte
D'une construction abandonee

En hiver elle a froid
Mais elle rejete tous les vetements
Que les gens dans la ville lui offrent
Parce qu'elle prefere porter
Ses propres vetements
Salles, dechires, insuffisants

Elle est morte aujourd'hui
Morte de froid
De faim, d'epuisment
De la manqué de l'amour and des amis

Et personne ne vienne
Quand elle est morte
Personne ne s'est soucie

Et quand je passe la porte
Vide au coin de la rue
Je me demande pourquoi
Je suis

S'il Vous Plaît
Avez-vous ecoutez ma chanson?
Maintenant vous comprenez

Translation

Please, listen to my song and you will understand
There is a woman in my town; she stands on the corner of the street
In the threshold of the door of an abandoned building

She's young like me, but she's crazy
She wears rags; plastic bags around her swollen feet

And when you pass her you ask yourself, 'why we are all here?'

See her eyes that watch attentively, a nonsense world
Near the threshold of the door of the abandoned building

In the winter she's cold but she refuses all the clothes
That the people in the neighborhood offer her
Because she prefers to wear her own clothes
Dirty, torn and insufficient

She died today; died of cold – of hunger, exhaustion
Of the lack of love and friends

And nobody came when she died; nobody seemed to care

And now when I pass that doorway
Empty on the corner of the street
I ask myself why I am

Please, did you listen to my song?
Now you understand.

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from Simple Sentences 1992, released May 9, 1992
Aubrey Atwater: vocals, guitar

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Atwater-Donnelly Warren, Rhode Island

Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, present delightful programs of traditional American and Celtic folk songs, a capella pieces, old-time gospel songs, dance tunes, and original works, blending gorgeous harmonies with guitar, Appalachian mountain dulcimer, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica, banjo, bones, spoons, limberjacks, and Appalachian clog dancing and French Canadian footwork. ... more

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