Aux Champs-Elysées - Joe Dassin -

Help me please

Je m'baladais sur l'avenue
le coeur ouvert à l'inconnu
J'avais envie de dire bonjour à n'importe qui
N'importe qui et ce fut toi,
je t'ai dit n'importe quoi
Il suffisait de te parler, pour t'apprivoiser.

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit
Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées.

Tu m'as dit "J'ai rendez-vous
dans un sous-sol avec des fous
Qui vivent la guitare à la main, du soir au matin"
Alors je t'ai accompagnée, on a chanté, on a dansé
Et l'on n'a même pas pensé à s'embrasser.

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit
Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées.

Hier soir deux inconnus et ce matin sur l'avenue
Deux amoureux tout étourdis par la longue nuit
Et de l'Étoile à la Concorde, un orchestre à mille cordes
Tous les oiseaux du point du jour chantent l'amour.

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit
Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées.

I went for a walk on the avenue
my heart open to the unexpected (lit: 'to the unknown')
I felt like greeting whoever (anyone)
'Whoever', was you,
I said anything to you
It was enough to speak to you, to get to know you [lit: become acquainted]

On Champs-Elysées, on Champs-Elysées
In the sun, in the rain, at midday or at midnight
There is all that you want on Champs-Elysées.

You said to me "I have appointment
in a basement with some crazy-guys
Who live guitar at the hand, from evening till morning"
So I accompanied you, we sang, we danced
We did not even think of kissing.

On Champs-Elysées, on Champs-Elysées
In the sun, in the rain, at midday or at midnight
There is all that you want on Champs-Elysées.

Yesterday evening two strangers and this morning on the avenue
Two lovers very dazed by the long night
-----------------------* an orchestra in thousand chords [see below -]
The dawn chorus sing of love. [lit: All birds of daybreak sing of love]

On Champs-Elysées, on Champs-Elysées
In the sun, in the rain, at midday or at midnight
There is all that you want on Champs-Elysées.

[Had another look - a major brain freeze the first time round - how could I not recall L'Etoile and La Concorde - mon Dieu!!]

I went for a walk on the avenue
My heart open to strangers
I felt compelled to say hello to just anybody
Anybody, and that was you
I said anything to you
It sufficed to talk to you, to win you over

On the Champs-Elysées, on the Champs-Elysées
In the sun, in the rain, at noon or at midnight
All you want is on the Champs-Elysées.

You told me "I have a meeting
In a basement with a bunch of loonies
Who live with guitars in their hands, from the evening until the morning"
So I followed you, we sang, we danced
And we did not even think of kissing.

On the Champs-Elysées, on the Champs-Elysées
In the sun, in the rain, at noon or at midnight
All you want is on the Champs-Elysées.

Yesterday evening two strangers, and this morning on the avenue
Two lovers totally distracted by the long night
And from the Étoile* to the Concorde, an orchestra with a thousand chords
All day break birds sing of love.

On the Champs-Elysées, on the Champs-Elysées
In the sun, in the rain, at noon or at midnight
All you want is on the Champs-Elysées.

*) The Étoile (Star) is the center of a star-shaped configuration of 12 radiating avenues in Paris. The Arc de Triomphe is located in the center of the Étoile.