In Tournent les Violons, from his best-selling 1991 album Chansons pour les pieds (Songs for the feet), French singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman turns into a troubadour-style narrator to tell us a story of hope, desire and disillusion against a medieval-like background. Enjoy this heady melody and sing along with our bilingual transcript below!
After listening to the song, scroll down for the transcript in our bilingual reader, where you can click any French phrase for the English translation and related grammar lessons.
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