Harmonium Lyrics in English maybe??

 

I LOVE this album, any help with the french?

 

That paragraph refers a lot about Quebec sovereignty that was at his pinnacle when the album was released in 1975.A year later,in 1976, the Parti Quebecois was at the lead of the province and the concept of sovereignty was accessible.Harmonium was associated with the sovereignty mouvement and even appears in some of the Parti Quebecois events.Line by line, it goes something like this:

 

 Si c'tun rêve réveille-moi donc (If it's a dream,just wakes me up)- The dream here is Quebec sovereignty and he wants somebody to wake him and feel that he's not dreaming and it's for real.

 

Ca va être notre tour ça sera pas long(It's gonna be our turn really soon)- That mean here that it's gonna be our turn to acceed sovereignty in a short time.

 

Reste par icitte parce que ca s'en vient(Stay here because it's coming)- He tell the person to whom he is talking to stay her because Quebec sovereignty will be happening soon.

 

3 or 4 years ago, I was a member of Harmonium discussion forum and Serge Fiori came to do a chat session where he answers various questions and somebody ask him the meaning of "Depuis l'automne" and that was his answer.Hope that help to clear the meaning.

 

 

 

Y'a rien là, Bern.Ca me fait plaisir!

For the others, it was a pleasure.

 

"Depuis l'Automne" talk a lot about Quebec sovereignty but they refers to elements that happen really in the history of Quebec.Like on this paragraph:

 

"On voulait chanter dans la rue"(We want to sing on the street)

 Pour être moins perdus (to be less lost)

 P'is c'est la rue qu'on a perdue"(But we loose the street)

 

Those events happen during the St-Jean Baptiste(national day for Quebecois celebrated on June 24)

in 1972 and 1973.In those years,the celebration were held near the Place Jacques-Cartier in Old Montreal and during those 2 years,they finished with a riot and the police arrested  people that makes troubles (destruction of pavillons,drunkness etc.).Harmonium was playing for the celebration in 1973,before the first album came out and the concert also finished in a riot with the police intervention.The year after,in 1974,the celebration of Saint-Jean Baptiste were moved to" Le parc du Mont-Royal " on the mountain for the subsequent years.That explain the line "Pis c'est la rue qu'on a perdue"(But we loose the street).That paragraph explain the sadness of Serge Fiori about loosing the Old Montreal site for the celebration of the Saint-Jean Baptiste and the policeman interventions.