Intoxicating, charming minor key – Les yeux noirs (black eyes)

Les yeux noirs (black eyes)

Originally a Ukrainian and Russian Tsigon (Gypsy) ballad, Black Eyes is based on a love genre song by the Ukrainian poet Yepgeny Grybioka (1812-1848). This song, the melody is beautiful and moving, affectionate and lively, blowing the Russian folk song style. Today I would like to share with you a French version sung by the band Pomplamoose, with a different kind of charming atmosphere.

Click to listen: intoxicated, charming minor key - Les yeux noirs (black eyes)

Those black eyes were blazing hot

Those black eyes are feminine and moving

You hurt me when I saw the black eyes

There has been no happiness or tranquility ever since

For your black eyes, you are willing to die

Black eyes——Pomplamoosis

Lyricist : Django Reinhardt

Composer: Django Reinhardt

Black eyes

In your big black eyes

I got lost

I'm waiting for a look, my heart hanging

I love you so much,

You who scare me

Is it a bad fate,

Or the wrong hour.

And around us,

Sing the Gypsies

And the world doesn't care,

Get drunk on champagne

In your beautiful black eyes,

I sink, my love

And my despair at their singing is deaf

I lose my mind looking for your arms

Burning with passion, come kiss me

And your big black eyes, strange light

Nimbés in the evening, of all the mysteries.

I'm crazy about you, my black-eyed beauty.

Even though I don't know where our story is going,

It is for my passion, the black eyes that I have

Makes this song,

Otchi Tchornye!