Grande Affaire — текст песни (Ralph McTell)

Take a bus, who needs a car
We`ll eat here, take this seat near the door.
Well I`m not hungry much now, are you?
Is it ok if I share yours with you?
I`ve got no money and I think I believe that you knew.

Remember the moon on the wall, didn`t she shine?
The taste of the sheets and the feel of the wine.
Wasn`t I glad that you was mine
In the Grande Affaire?

Take a boat, maybe a plane,
Anywhere now, `cept Greece or Spain.
For sure, I know where I am,
I see canals, this is Amsterdam.
I got friends here and they know, they can say who I am.

Remember the room without any view?
Frightened of meeting someone that we knew,
No farewells or how-do-you-dos
In the Grande Affaire.

Now I`ve stayed in all the best hotels,
And there`s white coated waiters attend me,
And I look at the beautiful girls,
Do they really believe they can bend me?

Well I drive now seldom I walk.
I can speak French, but I`d rather not talk.
Which suit will I wear tonight?
Take out the brown, but in the end wear the white.
After shade stepping out stepping into the light.

Remember the moon on the wall didn`t she shine,
The year was all wrong so we sent back the wine,
Wasn`t you glad that you was mine
In the Grande Affaire?