Translation of the song Si j'étais un charpentier artist Johnny Hallyday

Si j'étais un charpentier

If I were a carpenter

Si tu t'appelais Marie

and your name were Mary

Voudrais-tu alors m'épouser

would you want to marry me

Et porter notre enfant ?

and bear our child?

Ma maison ne serait pas

My house would not be

Le palais d'un grand roi

the palace of a great king.

Je l'aurais construite pour toi

I would have built it for you

Seul avec mes mains

alone with my own hands.

Prends l'amour que je te donne

Take the love I offer you.

Tu dois être forte

You have to be strong

Quand notre fils sera un homme

When our son becomes a man

Il aura beaucoup à faire

he'll have much to do.

Si j'étais un charpentier

If I were a carpenter

Si tu t'appelais Marie

and your name were Mary

Mes mains seraient sèches et dures

my hands would be dry and hard

Et les tiennes si fragiles

and yours would be so fragile

Les hommes et leur colère

Men and their wrath

Viendraient la nuit pour tuer

would come at night to kill.

Nous fuirions dans le désert

We would flee into the desert

Cacher le nouveau-né

to hide the newborn.

Si j'étais un charpentier

If I were a carpenter

Si tu t'appelais Marie

and your name were Mary

Voudrais-tu alors m'épouser

would you want to marry me

Et tout recommencer ?

and start all over again?

Voudrais-tu alors m'épouser

Would you want to marry me

Et tout recommencer ?

and start all over again?