# The most famous lines from Georges Brassens's songs

From "La Mauvaise Réputation" to "Les Copains d'abord" and "Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète": the lines by Georges Brassens (1921–1981) everyone in France knows, with the song and year of release.

- 270 votes · 11 items
- Dec 29, 2021 · amandine.rennes
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## Top 11

1. **The lovers who smooch on public benches, / public benches, public benches** (33 · ▲35 ▼2) — Song "The Lovers on Public Benches" (1953).
2. **But good people don't like it / when you take a different road from theirs** (32 · ▲33 ▼1) — Song "Bad Reputation" (1952).
3. **Beware of the gorilla!** (26 · ▲30 ▼4) — Song "The Gorilla" (1952).
4. **Poor Martin, poor wretch, / dig the earth, dig time!** (20 · ▲22 ▼2) — Song "Poor Martin" (1953).
5. **Time has nothing to do with it: / when you're a fool, you're a fool** (17 · ▲21 ▼4) — Song "Time Has Nothing to Do with It" (1961).
6. **Near my tree / I lived happily** (12 · ▲17 ▼5) — Song "Near My Tree" (1955).
7. **No, it was not the raft / of the Medusa, that boat** (11 · ▲15 ▼4) — Song "Friends First" (1964).
8. **This song is yours, / you, man from Auvergne, who without fuss / gave me four pieces of wood / when it was cold in my life** (9 · ▲16 ▼7) — Song "Song for the Auvergnat" (1954).
9. **Is it too much to ask: on my little plot / please plant some kind of pine** (7 · ▲12 ▼5) — Song "Plea to Be Buried on the Beach at Sète" (1966).
10. **Dying for ideas, all right, but a slow death** (5 · ▲11 ▼6) — Song "Dying for Ideas" (1972).
11. **I have the honour / of not asking for your hand** (4 · ▲11 ▼7) — Song "The Non-Proposal of Marriage" (1966).

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