Jacques Brel - Marathon (Les Flamandes) paroles de (lyrics)

Marathon, marathon mara, mara, marathon

Join us now, we're on a marathon
We're always dancing when the music plays
Join us now, we're on a marathon
Dancing, dancing through the nights and days

We must dance because the Twenties roar
The Twenties roar because there's bathtub gin
Vo-de-o do and the road to sin
The road to whoopee and a whole lot more

Charles A lindbergh, tons of confetti
Dempsey Tunney, Sacco and Vanzetti
Black, black Monday and the market drops
But we keep on dancing, dancing
We can't stop

Marathon, marathon mara, mara, marathon

Join us now, we're on a marathon
We're always dancing when the music plays
Join us now, we're on a marathon
Dancing, dancing through the nights and days

We must dance because the Thirties scream
The Thirties scream because the Horsemen ride
Orphan Annie lives, Daddy Warbucks dies
Breadlines, shanty towns
Frankenstein's bride

Adolf Hitler and the Ziegfeld follies
Joseph Stalin and a bag full of jollies
Call your broker and buy marzipan
While we keep on dancing, dancing on and on

Marathon, marathon mara, mara, marathon
Marathon, marathon mara, mara, marathon

Join us now, we're on a marathon
We're always dancing when the music plays
Join us now, we're on a marathon
Dancing, dancing through the nights and days

We must dance because the Forties burn
The Forties burn because the trumpets blare
The Yanks are coming, coming over there
Auschwitz, Edelweiss, Drang and Sturm

Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheim
God makes mushrooms just as God makes time
Peace is sweet, man, like a lollipop
So we keep on dancing, dancing, we can't stop

Marathon, marathon mara, mara, marathon
Marathon, marathon mara, mara, marathon

Join us now, we're on a marathon
We're always dancing when the music plays
Join us now, we're on a marathon
Dancing, dancing through the nights and days

We must dance because the Fifties zing
The Fifties zing because the Sixties swing
And the Seventies flash and the Eighties bang
And the Nineties whimper and
The century hangs
Robots working in the cotton fields
Vacations on Venus just a tourist deal
Fornication on tape, instant happiness
So we keep on dancing, dancing, we can't rest

Marathon, marathon mara, mara, marathon
Marathon, marathon mara, mara, marathon