When you showed up in the area
That grows at the foot of my council flat
You parked your old Saviem
Near a pylon
They had parked your caravans
Like wagons in a western
Suddenly in my shabby suburb
It was less dull
You, your family, your dogs, your kids
Your cousins, your brothers, your chickens
It's like a big breath of ozone
When it rolls in

Hello gypsy
Hello manouche
Do you remember me?
You had given me your knife
You still think you're Cartouche
I still don't have my certificate

Mario is still the grinder
Angelo makes his baskets
I know well that in these small trades
You have to make your butter
You have to have extras
You've always had a lot
The kind that when you're caught
Well, you pay
Pulled the car from a fool
I don't call that a crime
It's always the show-off bourgeois
That you steal from

Hello gypsy
Hello manouche
Do you remember me?
You had given me your old comb
Cigarillo in the corner of your mouth
You still have the same look

You still have your damn dog
Crossbreed of bastard with bastard
You wanted to sell it to me for a billion
I didn't have them
You have another new tattoo
I made three points on my hand
And I had my ear pierced
By a friend
But the headmaster didn't like it
So he kicked me out of school
If I meet him in the street this joker
I'll skin him

Hello gypsy
Hello manouche
Do you remember me?
You almost gave me your watch
My mother said you looked suspicious
I don't care what the old people say

If you go back to the Baumettes soon
Try to say hello to my old man
Tell him I found his glasses
Under his bed
Tell him not to worry about me
His son is not a loser
As soon as I'm fifteen I'll find a job
And I'll do like you
I'll buy a ruined old DS
A caravan and a dog
I'll leave the idiots in their hutch
And then I'll leave

Hello gypsy
Hello manouche
Do you remember me?
You had given me your knife
You still think you're Cartouche
I still don't have my certificate

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