Jimmy Buffett - Autour Du Rocher lyrics

Mes amis nous allons quelque part don't tout
Le monde
Se rappelle d'un endroit ou l'herbe etait
Tojours verte
Et la fete ne s'arretait jamais
A autour du rocher

Hello, everybody
This a a little tale about a hotel in
The Caribbean that I used to own
Well it wasn't really a hotel
It was a patio bar with funky rooms
And an outdoor disco with bad wiring
Some people said if you
Looked between the cracks
Of the floorboards of our dance floor
You would see Hell if you ever went there
You'd know what I'm talking about
If you never did
Then thought we'd sing you a little musical
Souvenir from another place and another time


Back in the old St bart's
You know, in the beginning of rock and roll
Bill Haley used to rock around the clock
Back in the late '80s in St bart's
We used to rock around the rock here we go

Some say it was a planet
Some say it was a rock
For five wild years in Lorient
The party never stopped
There were pirates from the Indies
There were models from Paris
There were locals and New Yorkers
And the Brazilian Navy
By mini-Mokes and scooters
In cabs and stolen cars
Came the creatures of the evening from
St martin and from Mars

Alors, Alors alors, Alors
Alors, Alors alors, Alors

Vien faire un tour autour du rocher
On croisera les fantomes du passé
Viens faire un tour autour du rocher
Sur les souvenirs l'herbe a poussee

Yeah, you could see 'em comin' up the hill
Headlights on those mini-Mokes
Trying to find the parking
Sometimes the party just started
Out there and
Never made it into the building
You never just knew

Girl at the pool table puts
On a show for free
And they were bivouacked in the bathroom by
The hot tub near the sea
Every night at midnight
Seemed the devil took control
And the hill became a parking lot
Fueled by rock 'n' roll

They were talking by the cannon
But I couldn't believe my ears
The Russian had plutonium
The sailor wanted beers
They shook hands in the moonlight and
Broke out a big cigar
Just business as usual beneath
The tropic stars

Alors, Alors alors, Alors
Alors, Alors alors, Alors

Vien faire un tour autour du rocher
On croisera les fantomes du passé
Viens faire un tour autour du rocher
Sur les souvenirs l'herbe a poussee

It was better than a painting at
Le Musee de Beaux Arts
And simply what we did for fun
Back in the old St barts
Then the glitz and all the
Glamour hit like a hurricane
Or maybe we just all grew up
But it never was the same

Yeah, all good things have to
Come to an end sometime
Some say it was the grease
Fire in the kitchen
Some say it was the turntable
And the disco melted down
But like a lot of good things in this world
How it went down is still a mystery

Well, the Gendarmes finally closed the
Joint and the fire, it did the rest
But on New Year's Eve of '91
We sang the last request
We were dancing in the ashes we
Were dancing in the sea
We were dancing in the ruins
Where we left our memories

Alors, Alors alors, Alors
Alors, Alors alors, Alors

Vien faire un tour autour du rocher
On croisera les fantomes du passé
Viens faire un tour autour du rocher
Sur les souvenirs l'herbe a poussee encore!

Alors, Alors alors, Alors
Alors, Alors alors, Alors

Vien faire un tour autour du rocher
On croisera les fantomes du passé
Viens faire un tour autour du rocher
Sur les souvenirs l'herbe a poussee

Yeah, and those ruins are still up there
I'll get back to St bart's every now and then
I can drive down that little
Road next to Lorient
Look up at that hill full of memories
And some nights I think I see a
Light comin' from that parking lot
Sometimes I hear some music comin'
From somewhere up there
Hope the ghosts are rockin' i remember
Rockin' around the rock around the rock
Around the rock around the rock
Around the rock around the rock
Around the rock