[78-L] fwd: FW: Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord ^

[Kristjan Saag]

I wrote:
>> Has anyone mentioned that "My Way" is a French song, "Comme d'habitude",
>> written by Jacques Revaux and rewritten in collaboration with singer 
>> Claude
>> Francois and lyricist Gilles Thibaut.
>> Here's the original:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQUq2w6_Rhw

 David Lennick wrote:
> No..because nobody cares! The song was unknown until Anka made it into a 
> hit.
--
Nobody, from a North American perspective, in this case was France. Funny 
Anka should have picked it up on French television if it was completely 
unknown.

Mike Biel wrote:
> He looks like a 17-year old kid who has no right to yet be singing a
> song about a lifetime of doing things his way.   If we are to believe
> the viewer comments, apparently the French lyrics are not at all like
> Anka's, so maybe he is saying that boy when he gets out in the world he
> is going to do things the way he wants to, but right now his mommy is
> telling him to take a bath and find out what time it is.
--
It's plain love song about a man who has lost his woman.
But it's fun to speculate, isn't it?
Kristjan