{"id":8039,"date":"2023-10-23T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2023-10-21T07:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T06:01:35","slug":"johan-galtung-performs-le-deserteur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/johan-galtung-performs-le-deserteur\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan Galtung Sings \u201cLe D\u00e9serteur\u201d (Music Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode: <em>Le D\u00e9serteur <\/em>composed by Boris Vian in 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This single event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (170 books written in 60 years+++).<\/p>\n<p><em>The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Le d\u00e9serteur - Johan Galtung sings Boris Vian\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IrgUZHrr3V0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Transcript and translation to English, verse by verse, by Harold Berg.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Le D\u00e9serteur &#8211; The Deserter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident,<br \/>\nje vous fais une lettre,<br \/>\nque vous lirez peut-\u00eatre,<br \/>\nsi vous avez le temps.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. President<br \/>\nI&#8217;m writing you a letter<br \/>\nthat perhaps you will read<br \/>\nIf you have the time.<\/p>\n<p>Je viens de recevoir<br \/>\nmes papiers militaires<br \/>\npour partir \u00e0 la guerre<br \/>\navant mercredi soir.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just received<br \/>\nmy call-up papers<br \/>\nto leave for the front<br \/>\nBefore Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident<br \/>\nje ne veux pas le faire,<br \/>\nje ne suis pas sur terre<br \/>\npour tuer de pauvres gens.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. President<br \/>\nI do not want to go<br \/>\nI am not on this earth<br \/>\nto kill wretched people.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;est pas pour vous f\u00e2cher,<br \/>\nil faut que je vous dise,<br \/>\nma d\u00e9cision est prise,<br \/>\nje m&#8217;en vais d\u00e9serter.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not to make you mad<br \/>\nI must tell you<br \/>\nmy decision is made<br \/>\nI am going to desert.<\/p>\n<p>Depuis que je suis n\u00e9,<br \/>\nj&#8217;ai vu mourir mon p\u00e8re,<br \/>\nj&#8217;ai vu partir mes fr\u00e8res,<br \/>\net pleurer mes enfants.<\/p>\n<p>Since I was born<br \/>\nI have seen my father die<br \/>\nI have seen my brothers leave<br \/>\nand my children cry.<\/p>\n<p>Ma m\u00e8re a tant souffert,<br \/>\nqu&#8217;elle est dedans sa tombe,<br \/>\net se moque des bombes,<br \/>\net se moque des vers.<\/p>\n<p>My mother has suffered so,<br \/>\nthat she is in her grave<br \/>\nand she laughs at the bombs<br \/>\nand she laughs at the worms.<\/p>\n<p>Quand j&#8217;\u00e9tais prisonnier<br \/>\non m&#8217;a vol\u00e9 ma femme,<br \/>\non m&#8217;a vol\u00e9 mon \u00e2me,<br \/>\net tout mon cher pass\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a prisoner<br \/>\nthey stole my wife<br \/>\nthey stole my soul<br \/>\nand all my dear past.<\/p>\n<p>Demain de bon matin,<br \/>\nje fermerai ma porte<br \/>\nau nez des ann\u00e9es mortes<br \/>\nj&#8217;irai sur les chemins.<\/p>\n<p>Early tomorrow morning<br \/>\nI will shut my door<br \/>\non these dead years<br \/>\nI will take to the road.<\/p>\n<p>Je mendierai ma vie,<br \/>\nsur les routes de France,<br \/>\nde Bretagne en Provence,<br \/>\net je crierai aux gens:<\/p>\n<p>I will beg my way along<br \/>\non the roads of France<br \/>\nfrom Brittany to Provence<br \/>\nand I will cry out to the people:<\/p>\n<p>refusez d&#8217;ob\u00e9ir,<br \/>\nrefusez de la faire,<br \/>\nn&#8217;allez pas \u00e0 la guerre,<br \/>\nrefusez de partir.<\/p>\n<p>Refuse to obey<br \/>\nrefuse to do it<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t go to war<br \/>\nrefuse to go.<\/p>\n<p>S&#8217;il faut donner son sang,<br \/>\nallez donner le v\u00f4tre,<br \/>\nvous \u00eates bon ap\u00f4tre,<br \/>\nmonsieur le Pr\u00e9sident.<\/p>\n<p>If blood must be given<br \/>\ngo give your own<br \/>\nyou are a good apostle<br \/>\nMr. President.<\/p>\n<p>Si vous me poursuivez<br \/>\npr\u00e9venez vos gendarmes<br \/>\nque je n&#8217;aurai pas d&#8217;armes<br \/>\net qu&#8217;ils pourront tirer.<\/p>\n<p>If you go after me<br \/>\nwarn your police<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;ll be unarmed<br \/>\nand that they can shoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode: Le D\u00e9serteur composed by Boris Vian in 1954. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This single event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (170 books written in 60 years, +++).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[871],"class_list":["post-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week","tag-music-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246622,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions\/246622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}