Boney / Jean-François (Just the Shanty #34)

[@GoofyGoober7582]

Thank you so much for returning! I've been getting back to listening seasongs/shanties, and it's never the same without you. Thanks again!

[@jakobgeigelclermont]

J'adore tellement votre utilisation d'un français plus ancien et/ou informel dans votre prononciation de Jean-François. Ça vend vraiment que c'est des matelots qui chantent et pas un aristocrate ou quelqu'un du 21e siècle.

[@Hunt3RMH]

J'adorerais entendre d'autres chants français un jour. Les paroles en français avec un accent anglophone ça sonne tellement bien je trouve

[@donaldfschiff1229]

Je l'aime aussi!

[@grandgab]

I'm really happy that you had the time to post new recorded shanty. Une en français c'était assez inattendue aussi.

[@Copperkaiju]

I've been feeling anxious and increasingly scinical but these last couple of videos are one of the few things that help to give my heart a softness and reassurance that I've been needing recently. Thank you so much.

[@nowaywellerman7966]

I missed this so much. Thanks Sean

[@JF-xx9yn]

St Helena looks so busy and populated in that map :D Great to hear you again!

[@FBNL]

Another great shanty Sean, hope you are well

[@bentokill]

First of all, thank you for this beautiful interpretation. However, I would be curious to know where this version of the Breton sailor song comes from? In fact, in the original, there is no mention of Napoleon or his Russian campaign, but just the story of a sailor for whom things go wrong. EDIT : Oh, I see! It looks like you mixed 'Boney Was a Warrior' with it, which is why I was confused. Thanks! Regarding the translation, it would be more like this: 1 - It's Jean-François from Nantes Yeah Yeah Yeah Topman on La Fringante, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 2 - Finally disembarking from the campaign Yeah Yeah Yeah Proud like a king of Spain, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 3 - In his purse in a mess Yeah Yeah Yeah He's got twenty months of sailing, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 4 - A watch, a chain Yeah Yeah Yeah Worth a whale, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 5 - An uproar at his hostess’s Yeah Yeah Yeah Ready for action and generous, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 6 - The most beautiful servant Yeah Yeah Yeah Takes him to her attic, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 7 - Together with her Yeah Yeah Yeah He sails on a calm sea, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 8 - And emptying the bottle Yeah Yeah Yeah He spends all his gold, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 9 - Watch and chain vanish Yeah Yeah Yeah But he catches syphilis, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 10 - At the hospital in Nantes Yeah Yeah Yeah Jean-François laments, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 11 - And the sheets of his bed Yeah Yeah Yeah He tears with his teeth, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 12 - He would make anyone feel pity Yeah Yeah Yeah Even his captain, oh my boys Jean-Françoué 13 - Poor Jean-François from Nantes Yeah Yeah Yeah Topman on La Fringante, oh my boys Jean-Françoué Cheers!

[@hrovardran4755]

Thanks for the translations

[@JonathanBoies]

merci

[@Manticrow707]

très bien