The Partisan Lyrics

Lyric discussion by morningmorgantown 

Cover art for The Partisan lyrics by Leonard Cohen

the french verses are in fact this: les allemandes étaient chez moi, ils me dirent "resigne-toi", mais je n'ai pas pu, j'ai repris mon arme. j'ai changé cent fois de nom, j'ai perdu femme et enfants, mais j'ai tant d'amis, j'ai la France entière. un vieil homme dans un grenier, pour la nuit nous a caché, les Allemands l'ont pris, il est mort sans supplice.

which translate more literally, for any who care, as: the germans came to my home, they ordered me to surrender, but i could not, i retook my weapon i've changed my name a hundred times i've lost wife and children but i have many friends i have all of france an old man in an attic kept us hidden for a night the germans took him he died without suffering