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   You've Got To Learn
  Charles Aznavour, M. Stellman
   
  Original French Lyrics

Il faut savoir encore sourire
Quand le meilleur s'est retiré
Et qu'il ne rest que le pire
Dans une vie bÆte a pleurer
Il faut savoir coõte que coõte
Garder toute sa dignité
Et malgré ce qu'il nous en coõte
S'en aller sans se retourner
Face au destin qui nous désarme
Et devant le bonheur perdu
Il faut savoir cacher ses larmes
Mais moi mon coeur je n'ai pas su

Il faur savoir quitter la table
Lorsque l'amour est desservi
Sans s'accrocher l'air pitoyable
Mais partir sans faire de bruit
Il faur savoir cacher sa peine
Sous le masque de tous le jours
Et retenir le cris de haine
Qui sont le derniers motes d'amour

Il faut savoir rester de glace
Et taire un coeur qui meurt déjà
Il faut savoir garder la face
Mais moi je t'aime trop
Mais moi je ne peux pas
Il faut savoir mais moi
Je ne sais pas

 
  Recording studio session 1965 Jan. 15, New York -- (LP I Put a Spell on You)
    LP 1965 I Put A Spell On You Philips (US) PHM 200-172, (E) 652-068 [2:41]
    CD 1990 In Concert+I Put A Spell On You Mercury 846543-2 [2:41]
 
You've got to learn to show a happy face
Although you're full of misery
You mustn't show a trace of sadness
Never look for sympathy

You've got to learn although it's very hard
The way of pocketing your pride
Sometimes face humiliation
While you were burning up inside
Facing reality is often hard to do
When it seems happiness is gone

You've got to learn to hide your tears
And tell your heart life must go on

You've got to learn to leave the table
When love's no longer being served
To show everybody that you're able
To leave without saying a word

You've got to learn to hide your sorrow
And go on living as before
What good is thinking of tomorrow
Who knows what it may have in store

You've got to learn to be much stronger
At times your head must rule your heart

You've got to learn from hard experience
And listen to advice
And sometimes pay the price
And learn to live with a broken heart

 
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