Adieu vieille Europe - Chants de la Legion etrangere (Songs of the French foreign legion)

Refrain
Nous les damnés de la terre entière,
Nous les blessés de toutes les guerres,
Nous ne pouvons pas oublier
Un malheur, une honte, une femme qu'on adorait.
Nous qu'avons l'sang chaud dans les veines,
Cafard en tête au coeur les peines
Pour recevoir, donner des gnons, crénom de nom,
Sans peur, en route pour la Légion.
I
Adieu vieille Europe,
Que le diable t'emporte
Adieu vieux pays,
Pour le ciel si brûlant de l'Algérie
Adieu souvenir, notre vie va finir
Il nous faut du soleil, de l'espace,
Pour redorer nos carcasses.
II
Salut camarades,
Donnons-nous l'accolade,
Nous allons sac au dos, flingue en main,
Faire ensemble le même chemin.
A nous le désert,
Comme au marin la mer,
Il nous faut du soleil, de l'espace,
Pour redorer nos carcasses.

[@ericdebreuil6303]

à tous ces hommes morts pour la France, qui a oublier ses valeur et son Honneur.

[@jean-michellefevre4383]

Mon oncle était légionnaire 👍😇respect loyauté courage solidarité 💪👍🙏humains avec ces prochains pour la bonne cause. La paix sur terre 🕊️😇parabellum 🕊️🌏

[@angel5202]

Je suis fils de légionnaire, mon père affiche 36 années auprès de la légion étrangère, je suis plus que fier de lui. Vive la légion étrangère !

[@themaskthemask9179]

J'ai fais que 5 ans dans la Légion Etrangère au sein du 1 er régiment étranger d'infanterie de 1994 à 1999. Je regrette de n'avoir pas continué quand je vois la vie de merde dans le civile. LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA restera ma devise pour la vie !!!!!!!

[@roideschats8799]

@@themaskthemask9179 sans faire la morale à personne, engagez-vous différemment pour la Patrie. La France a plus que jamais besoin de ses enfants pour la libérer. (je précise bien que mon message est amical et respectueux). Les consciences sont en train de bouger.

[@LeRider666]

LES ET CONNU DEPUIS PLUS DE 40 ANS LES CÔTOIE ENCORE 4RE 2REP .......CES AVEC HONNEUR QUE JE SALUT TOUTES LA LÉGION LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA

[@rhumanar5048]

15 ans dans le 2é REP "LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA" et retraité des SAS "QUI OSE GAGNE" depuis 2 ans

[@Attila313]

Des belles personnes.... franchement.

[@fredericdella-monica6138]

C'est mon chant 9RCP .PAMIER( 3 compagnie de combat . jaune2 .) Classe 89/10. Que de bon souvenirs . Vive les troupes d'assaut , le diable rit avec nous

[@jean-jacqueshamel8358]

Bien beau chant. Remarquable même. Vive la legion

[@Dogmeat1950]

Justin Dinspechin it's not weird at all, Many Famous Americans have been in the Legion, in fact They have a Statue of an American Legionnaire in France to remember all Americans they came to fight for France in WW1. The most decorated OSS Agent of WW2 was in the Legion before he was in the U.S Marines, he was also big in Movies too his name was Peter J. Ortiz

[@yann-loicarnaud2512]

Legio patria NOSTRA, vive la légion, bravo à tous les légionnaires et un grand merci mais le mot est si petit, que la grâce soit avec vous et que Marie vous protège.

[@guylempereur3221]

Allez racontez ça aux Légionnaires. Courage..

[@alanone5024]

Honneur

[@guyjoubert8517]

l'armée au pouvoir!!!droit devant,ça ira beaucoup mieux dans tous les compartiments de la NATION !zéro chomeurs ,zéro violence,et la dette à zéro!!!!

[@FrenchTouch78OA]

that what it is indeed, when the song was written, most of them would die or get injured, it is not true anymore, but they are still as good warriors as in the old times, well they are even better because today only one volunteer out of 8 is accepted in the legion, before we needed so much of them that you could easily "escape to the legion".

[@janspawn]

Farewell old europe, the devil shall take you, farewell old countries, to the burning sky of algeria farewell memories, our life will end we need the sun and the room to gilden our carcass (notice how it says "our life" and not "our lifes") Hello comrade, lets give each other the "ceremonial embrace" (not quite sure how to translate "accolade") bags on our back, rifle in our hand, we march the same way together the desert belongs to us, like the sea belongs to the seaman we need the sun and the room to gilden our carcass Chorus: us, the damned of the entire earth, us, the wounded from all wars, we cannot forget, a misfortune, a shame, a woman that we loved us who only have hot blood in the veins, cockroaches in our heads(i suppose that means shit) and pain in our hearts, to receive and to throw punches,(?)we carry the name(?), without fear, en route for the legion Thats it more or less,some things are difficult to translate, but you know...i think you get the message

[@benjaminhainault4228]

You almost got it. just a few corrections: accolade: not sure either, but i would say "viril hug" "cockroaches in our heads" (cafard en tête): actually an expression meaning "having the blues" "we carry the name" (crénom de nom !! ) also an expression. Could be translated by "God dammit !"

[@janspawn]

benjamin hainault ah ok,nice to know,thanks!!!

[@alvarojneto]

janspawn, thanks a lot for this. Really, really helpful

[@janspawn9971]

Alvaro Neto you're welcome :)

[@arwidsson3676]

It would more be like "May the Devil take you"

[@mocheriton6504]

Bonjour belle Europe, Prend ton petit déjeuné, Bonjour vielle Europe, Nous les petits français, Nous pensons bien à vous, Au côté de nos parents... Lala lalala , Lala lalalalalalalalalalalala, Lala lalala, La,,, tartiflette,,

[@jensonofmull]

Chorus: We, the damned of the whole earth, We, the wounded from all wars, We cannot forget, A misfortune, a shame, a woman who loved us. What we have in our warm blooded veins, Depression in our heads and pain in our hearts, For recieving and throwing punches, we carry the name, Without fear, en route to the legion. I may be entirely wrong, but that is my interpretation of it.

[@roideschats8799]

Vive la France !

[@leoantoniou6177]

Need to do it .and get it out my system

[@voodoo_6_actual827]

Leo Antoniou I know what you mean, man.

[@longtraveller3621]

File ellhnas?

[@jeanphilippebarat7482]

ma vie

[@legijastranaca7844]

beautiful

[@marcoreinelt3402]

Jador la legion j rev dallee

[@wallopcock]

Creepy but catchy song

[@sitronskall]

for some reason i want to learn this song... and I dont have a clue about what they`re singing about.

[@theMezianaThai]

@dr677 Hello la Slovaquie, un petit bonjour de France. Salutations,

[@pzn9407]

Viva selva

[@dru187]

Joining the FFL is now my goal in life, see you recruits in 2014!

[@borna-vo1fr]

dru187 u joined ? finished training?

[@davidnine2567]

#Poing_fermé-levé.

[@djoleap]

if you're afraid of death, that is definitely not for you

[@abbassiasellal6338]

Je viens de perdre l'homme de mes rêves .L'homme droit, loyal et fidèle ben amitiés, Que le seigneur l'accueille dans son vaste paradis,Mon DIEU qu' elle tristesse et qu' elle est lourde a porter l'absence de mon tendre AMI !Tu es et resteras présent là ou tu es absent

[@Jonathan17654]

im only 13 the now but i might go over at 18

[@SteveExTreme]

Hmm a I think you can join in Paris, Strasbourg and in some other cities in France.

[@swan6807]

Both need to say yes

[@MrFrajzman]

I would really want to join the Legion Etrangere, but I'm only turning 18 next month and it has quite a big mortality rate (thing 1out of 8 die before first 5 years are over), and I don't want to risk dying already.... but all of you legionnaires out there you have all my RESPECT !!!!

[@TheDissmaster10]

lol, same her :P

[@Davidek1188]

Chlapci je tu nejaký Slovák, Čech alebo Poliak, ktorý by išiel so mnou tam ? Ja mám 18 o rok končím školu a chcel by som tam ísť.

[@illusiions3D]

Same haha

[@petercarabot8986]

Go and join young men, Go and see the world make a name for yourself. If you are one of the 10% chosen... of course. Didnt do any harm to me!!That was 30+ years ago!

[@monkeyspankerful]

Reading the comments.....Join your army, if it's shit go absent and join the Legion! The legion has no battle honours, the French do not win wars. English soldiers generally win wars, with the help with afew counterparts. If you're American and reading this...... YOU TURNED UP LATE....... BOTH TIMES!

[@roybeute]

m2

[@ECrixus]

are you a legionare

[@fredericgarcia8747]

😄😄😄😁😁😁✖✖✖✖legion fachiste !

[@mehdiguti718]

Mon père a fait la légion étrangère il a fait premier régiment quatrième régiment et Deuxième REP

[@laurencesauvage6964]

bonjour mon papa était légionnaire aussi son dernier souhait été de lui mettre la légion pour partir vers dieu merci pour lui vous lui avait donné la force jusqu'au bout merci la légion sa fille lolo

[@claude79niort]

respect et soi toujours fiere de lui bravo a toi

[@themaskthemask9179]

Legio patria nostra. Ancien du 1 er régiment étranger d'infanterie. 1994 à 1999. Respect pour ton papa. 💗

[@legioaeternavitrix9115]

Moi aussi mon père était légionnaire

[@helmamut3970]

@@legioaeternavitrix9115 force mon amie

[@legioaeternavitrix9115]

@@helmamut3970 dejas t'es qui pour me parler comme ça ?

[@HomeMadeGunNut]

Live your life without fear of death so that when it's your time to go, instead of begging fate for another year to waste you may leave this earth with no regrets. If joining the Legion is your dream then it'd be best to die having succeeded in accomplishing your dream than to die wishing you had tried.

[@NEY-uu3lx]

you dead?

[@les8351]

So true.

[@cedriclegio]

Vive la légion fière d’avoir servi pour la France pour notre drapeau

[@J.S523]

Moi aussi 10 ans au 1 et REC 2000/2010❤,legio Patria Nostra

[@leewe2015]

think twice, then sleep, then think again before joining the Legion

[@les8351]

You don't think at all,just do it.Did it 1980-1987.Best time of my life,no regrets.

[@MultiSciGeek]

Even after years I can hear this song in my head

[@nathanchoi2402]

Finally, I found the song after watching Escape to the Legion! xD

[@realazduffman]

Same here!

[@OperationFoxley19441]

Me too!!!

[@francoislaplace7288]

C était ma chanson en 86 au 14ieme RCP puis bomap viva les paras

[@sunshower6560]

France has so much potential as a military power and it feels like its being held back.... ;/

[@BlackCrafte]

I'm French, my brother is an officer an we both agree.

[@arwidsson3676]

Yes, it is being hold back, I don't know why, but our politicians make a good job making people hate, fear, ignore our Army.

[@dr677]

The biggest respect to the foreign legion. I am proud that my uncle has served in the legion for 18 years! Salute!!!!

[@lou4brew]

Same here, when I first heard this song playing in the barracks I was like "Jesus Christ, it sounds like a bunch of guys who know they are already dead marching forward." Hauntingly beautiful.

[@silencessao]

slt, Des morts tu en auras toujours plus de la vie que dans la légion, la seul chose est que tu sais que tu peux riposter et que dans la vie tu prends tes coups s"en savoir pourquoi. LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA. On a eu moins de morts que toutes les armées(USA,URSS,.....) qui ont été en afghanistan même ce de la france

[@973Marcelino]

Légio Patria Nostra.

[@mz2950]

Légio patria nostra. More majorum Honneur et fidélité à la France .

[@ironbuawaa1825]

Force, honneur et fidélité. More Majorum.

[@01hollandz]

Vive la légion étrangère française 2REP!

[@olariualex85]

there are a lot of storyes with dead leginnaires for scarying away the cowards.i say ,go and make the adventure of your life! this is 1 oportunity in a lifetyme! cheers

[@carbinearmin]

Really want to join... does anyone know if they accept Iranians?

[@JeanDeza1]

no problem with nationalitys or religion ...just obey and shout ur mouth.

[@freddyvandamme9712]

Merci mes frère d'armes ce me permet de moi soifrire .c.l

[@corneliaditsch119]

Le frère de ma grand-mère était légionnaire respect à tous

[@Briselance]

De quelle unité a-t-il fait partie ? À quels conflits a-t-il participé, s'il vous plaît ?

[@jakelaffan3846]

my plane tickets are booked for 3rd of August

[@Bollanger]

Survive the "uniform" of character and being, and you will be fine.

[@NICO110789]

Jake Laffan n'

[@fiervainqueur7818]

You're treated like shit there. Or worse, like you don't exist at all, becouse every week another dozens of EV are accepted.

[@mehditurki5480]

Adieu l'U.E vive le Frexit 😁 vive l'UPR

[@hrg-mecanique4781]

Chants avant de dormir

[@Marlboromani]

Respect

[@carbinearmin]

Were can i get the translations for this chant? Or if anyone would be kind enough can u pls translate... Thank you

[@horst2k10]

J'avais un camerade

[@andreigaless3106]

Nous avons l'etrangeres

[@rangerrom3650]

Beau chant.

[@ThierrySanJarrasse]

"Crénom de nom!"

[@lonewolf8359]

I miss my freind mr Cooper i hope my freind is ok. Nice happy freind but be in legionär many yers get some time problem in civil plyas, i have tray to call him many Times. I whas in prisson Sweden and nowe i am in pts drog and kriminell gang rest Home fuck. I hope he call me i promis to help my best freind forever in to the ded ❣🤘🙏. He and my fighting when we are drunk but fore freinds doing some time in my house but never get angry i coming from ware in cilivison fighting fore my Brothers Sweden.. I have bigg respekt fore my best freind some time going back in ware over all the plyas and Respekt to all legioners.

[@leonhoyes]

Viva la legion

[@monkeyspankerful]

Caedenar..... I'm quite happy with the history I know. We generally practise on the French before we go to a real war. Thai ladyboy? Where's that from? Unless you're telling us all about your fantasies?

[@kalmesh2105]

Amboise❤😂

[@Urinesauce]

I'm waging a mental battle within my mind on whether to join the Legion or not...My heart tells me yes, my brain tells me no. Which do I listen to?

[@yeshua3394]

ancien respect à vous

[@culturo270]

1 REC 4 ESCADRONS

[@willianferreira965]

A todos os brazuca aí que escutaram mais de 500 o som pra não ramassar pelo caporal 😂😂😂😂😂

[@VRforged]

Soldiers so hearty they dont need camouflage they wear white and beat on war drums miles out from engaging. Obviously not literally but you understand the colloquialisms :)

[@jeanpaulcomte1776]

Bonjour à vous tous fils de la légion je vais déposer des pétales de fleurs pour mon père et les camarades

[@northerpwn]

Before you want to join legionnaires, try to this wisely if it is best for you and you will not run away after 1 week. :-)

[@SuperNoemata]

It's a but leaving Europe, saying good bye to all your loved ones, and without fear find their way to the Legion. so on

[@vp-be5rm]

Discipline, respect pour nous braves soldat d'elite

[@sfacets]

If you're only 18, you don't really know what you're talking about.

[@JFD1220]

I've been told its weird to be an American and want to join up..

[@benkovic18]

and what would he do xD? (i know felling) im working out too with this song :P

[@wolfgangsollinger9031]

Who wrote this nonsens ? I been 7 years inside - from 85 to 92 in a Caporal level...... and there was in the whole legion during this 7 years roughly lesser than 10 legionnaires are died.

[@danilos767]

Krasser typ....Hut ab...

[@k0n3sk1]

can someone translate to me the lyrics in english? thanks.

[@marouanecarrara9290]

Cest triste de souhaiter à satan leurope

[@MrThisDarkness]

Im gonna learn the lyrics xD

[@Zbojnik]

Sorry, we tend to be fashionably late.

[@Caedenar]

Please learn some history thai ladyboy

[@leewe2015]

Escape to the Legion brought me here too

[@Thomas-ly1bw]

anybody got the english lyrics ?

[@lucasmart234]

Ill join if you join ^.^ XD

[@DarkAncientZ]

Foarte frumos cantec!

[@TheFranzo98]

you can joing at 17

[@christianguidoux90]

Respect

[@xavierduran1939]

A la soupe!

[@zakarias1886]

Its worth it.

[@stoned_mosquito]

Me too :D

[@DarkOnOneSide]

lol same

[@jensonofmull]

My french isn't excellent but I can roughly translate. Without being too literal I would say: Verse 1 Farewell old Europe, The Devil takes you, Farewell to the old country, For the burning skies of Algeria. Farewell memories, our life will end, We need the sun, the space, To restore our bodies. Verse 2 Hello commrades, Give us the aknowledgement, We backpack, gun in hand, Set on the same path, To us the desert, as the sailor to sea, We need the sun, the space, To restore our bodies.

[@vagost674]

"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacré mercenaire" Long live death, long live war, long live the cursed mercenary ... respect to all merceneries and specialy to the French Foreign Legion !!!

[@Kapooka98]

Came here after watching escape to the legion, great documentary!