IF YOU GO AWAY 

Jacques Brel

English Lyric: Rod McKuen

Publishers: Warner Chappell Music

                   France / SARRAL / Intersong 

If you go away / On this summer’s day

Then you might as well / Take the sun

away / All the birds that flew / In the

summer sky / When our love was new / And

our hearts were high / When the day  was

young / When the night was long / And the

moon stood still / For the nightbird’s song

If you go away / If you go away

If you go away

Ne me quitte pas / Il faut oublier / Tout

peut s’oublier / Qui s’enfuit déjà

Oublier le temps / Des malentedus / Et le

temps perdu / A savoir comment / Oublier ces

heures / Qui tuaient parfois

A coup de pourquoi / Le coeur du bonheur

Ne me quitte pas / Ne me quitte pas

Ne me quitte pas

But if you stay / I’ll make you a night

Like no night has been / Or will be again

I’ll sail on your smile / I’ll ride on your

touch / I’ll talk to your eyes / That I

love so much / But if you go / Go, I won’t

cry / Though the good is gone / From the

word “goodbye” / If you go away / If you go

away / If you go away / If you go away / If

you go away / As I know you must There’ll

be nothing left / In this world to trust

Just an empty room / Full of empty space

Like the empty look / I see on your face

I’d have been the shadow / Of your shadow

If I thought it might / Have kept me by

your side / If you go away / If you go away

Ne me quitte pas