C'est comme une gaité
Comme un sourire
Quelque chose dans la voix
Qui parait nous dire "viens"
Qui nous fait sentir étrangement bien

C'est comme toute l'histoire
Du peuple noir
Qui se balance entre l'amour
Et l'désespoir
Quelque chose qui danse en toi
Si tu l'as, tu l'as

Ella, elle l'a
Ce je ne sais quoi
Que d'autres n'ont pas
Qui nous met dans un drôle d'état
Ella, elle l'a

Ella, elle l'a (elle l'a)
Cette drôle de voix
(Elle l'a)
Cette drôle de joie
Ce don du ciel qui la rend belle
Ella, elle l'a

Ella, elle l'a (elle l'a)
Ella, elle l'a (elle l'a)

Elle l'a
Ce tout petit supplément d'âme
Cet indéfinissable charme
Cette petite flamme

Tape sur des tonneaux
Sur des pianos
Sur tout ce que Dieu peut te mettre
Entre les mains
Montre ton rire ou ton chagrin

Mais que tu n'aies rien
Que tu sois roi
Que tu cherches encore les pouvoirs
Qui dorment en toi
Tu vois, ça ne s'achète pas
Quand tu l'as, tu l'as

Ella, elle l'a
Ce je ne sais quoi
Que d'autres n'ont pas
Qui nous met dans un drôle d'état
Ella, elle l'a Ella (elle l'a)

Ella, elle l'a (elle l'a)
Ella, elle l'a (elle l'a)

Ella, elle l'a
Ella, elle l'a
Ella, elle l'a
Ella, elle l'a
Ella, elle l'a
Ella, elle l'a

Ella, elle l'a
Ce je-ne-sais-quoi
Que d'autres n'ont pas
Qui nous met dans un drôle d'état
Ella, elle l'a (elle l'a)

Ella, elle l'a
Cette drôle de voix
Cette drôle de joie
Ce don du ciel qui la rend belle
Ella, elle l'a (elle l'a)

Ella, elle l'a
Ella, elle l'a
Ella, elle l'a


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    General Comment

    A tribute to the great Ella Fitzgerald. Beautiful beautiful song!!

    Non March 12, 2003   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    Beautiful song, there's a more erotic version that starts with heavy breathing, very sexy.

    A rough translation (made by some auto translator):

    It is like a cheerfulness Like a smile Something in the voice Who appears to say to us come Who makes us smell curiously well It is like all the history Of the black people Who balances himself Between the love and despair Something which dances in you If you have it, you have it

    Ella, it has it This I do not know what That others do not have Who puts to us in funny state Ella, it has it Ella, it has it This funny of voice This funny of joy This gift of the sky Who makes it beautiful Ella, it has it Ella, it has it

    It has This very small supplement of heart This indefinable charm This small flame

    Type On barrels On pianos On all that God can put to you between the hands Show your laughter or your sorrow But that you do not have anything That you would be a king That you still seek the capacities which sleep in you You see Ca does not buy yourself When you have it, you have it

    Ella, it has it This I do not know what That others do not have Who puts to us in funny state Ella, it has it Ella, it has it This funny of voice This funny of joy This gift of the sky Who makes it beautiful Ella, it has it...

    Worston November 08, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    This song is about Ella Fitzgerald's natural beauty and talent, as well as saying that black people have a natural born talent in them.

    1petitefilleon October 21, 2011   Link

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