Текст песни 40. Гришаева, Гольдман - Как и ты

Comme toi (like you)
Author and Artist: Jean-Jacques Goldman
1982

Note: A song sounds in two ways. Since the program refused to accept the song only in the author's version, stating: "The audio recording is not available for listening in your region" "
I had to establish additionally also the performance of Nonna Grishaeva from the play "Warsaw Melody". In this form, the program accepted the file.
It was a pity to lose such a good song for my collection. Therefore, I had to go to such tricks.

According to the chronology of the war, around this time Auschwitz was liberated. And this is Holocaust remembrance day.

Text and translation.
Elle avait les yeux clairs et la robe en velours
(With a radiant look in a velvet dress)
A cote de sa mere et la famille autour
(Near her mother, amid the whole family,)
Elle pose un peu distraite au doux soleil de la fin du jour
(It seems to dissolve in the gentle rays of the evening sun.)
La photo n'est pas bonne mais l'on peut y voir
(The photo didn’t work out very well, but you can still see it)
Le bonheur en personne et la douceur d'un soir
(Happiness on people's faces and soft evening light.)
Elle aimait la musique surtout Schumann et puis Mozart
(She loved music, especially Schumann and Mozart ...)

Chorus:
Comme toi comme toi comme toi comme toi
(Like you, like you, like you, like you)
Comme toi comme toi comme toi comme toi
(Like you, like you, like you, like you)
Comme toi que je regarde tout bas
(Like you I'm looking at now)
Comme toi qui dort en revant a quoi
(Like you, sleeping, dreaming about something ...)
Comme toi comme toi comme toi comme toi
(Like you, like you, like you, like you)

Elle allait a l'ecole au village d'en bas
(She went to school, in the village below,)
Elle apprenait les livres elle apprenait les lois
(I read books, studied laws,)
Elle chantait les grenouilles et les princesses qui dorment au bois
(She liked the frogs and princesses sleeping in the forest)
Elle aimait sa poupee elle aimait ses amis
(She loved her doll and her friends,)
Surtout Ruth et Anna et surtout Jeremie
(Especially Ruth and Anna and most of all Jeremy,)
Et ils se marieraient un jour peut-etre a Varsovie
(And one day they would get married somewhere in Warsaw ...)

Chorus.

Elle s'appelait Sarah elle n'avait pas huit ans
(Her name was Sarah and she was almost eight,)
Sa vie c'etait douceur reves et nuages ​​blancs
(Her life was tender dreams and white clouds,)
Mais d'autres gens en avaient decide autrement
(Although it seemed to others that this was not so.)
Elle avait tes yeux clairs et elle avait ton age
(She had the same radiant look,
and she was the same age as you,)

C'etait une petite fille sans histoires et tres sage
(Little girl, I don’t come up, honestly,)
Mais elle n'est pas nee comme toi ici et maintenant
(But she was not born like you, here and now ...)

Chorus.

The story of the song.
The song was written in 1982 under the influence of viewing an old family album. From one of the yellowed photographs, a girl of eight years old was smiling happily, so reminding the author of his daughter, only this girl belonged to a different time - military, terrible. The song is dedicated to the author’s daughter and turned to her - "How are you ...", and the story is told in it of the eight-year-old girl who did not have time to grow up, in whose fate the war intervened. The little girl from Warsaw is a collective image of all the dead Jewish children. Goldman’s song does not contain the words “fascism”, “concentration camp”, “genocide”, “holocaust”, etc. There are just a few hints. Moreover, a violin musical insert in the middle ... “But other people decided differently” is the only phrase that discords with a bright picture of cloudless childhood happiness.