The singing ghost of Charles Trenet comes to haunt YouTube and the entire English speaking world who can finally understand his joyous, quirky lyrics in this illustrative, subtitled video. In 1937, Trenet began his solo career, recording for Columbia, his first disc being "Je chante/Fleur bleue". The exuberant "Je chante" gave rise to the notion of Trenet as a "singing vagabond", a theme that appeared in a number of his early songs and films. Thanks to philipchek of YouTube and Paris for suggesting I make this song understandable to the anglophone world, and for help with the translation;
