I thought it worthwhile reprising this masterpiece while we are at loggerheads over poissons.

Quand il me prend dans ses bras

Il me parle tout bas

Je vois la vie en rose

Edith Piaf, petit pain

And Zinedine Zidane

Depardieu with grand nose

No-one likes Charles Aznavour

Don’t mention Agincourt

It makes them tres morose

Ballets and chalets, aussi Charles de Gaulle

I’ve had it with Brexit, it’s “Non” after all;

Honi soit qui mal y pense

Gateaux and pink blancmange

La Vie en |Rose

Who the hell’s Anne Fairey Anne?

Frogs’ legs and verre de vin

And stuff yer Marseillaise

Sur le pont de Avignon

You say C’est si Bon

Tray bien and qu’est-ce que c’est

Citroen and Renault Dauphine

Pas ce soir Josephine

I don’t want a dose

Oui oui it’s gay Paree ho ho ho ho oo la la

Bonjewer mon sewer ho ho under twar er

Shut up shop for Bastille Day

Le quatorze juillet

La Vie en Rose.

Inky pinky parley voo

Ya lost at Waterloo

Air traffic control’s closed

Boney Part and cul-de-sac

Pommes de terre, cognac

Et beaucoup quelque choses

Pair o’ knees and Notre Dame

Well, that went  up in flammes

Despite les pompiers’ hoses

Gentil allouette, stuff that for a lark

I smell something burning; is that Joan of Arc?

Please, do ab a dubonnet

Maurice Chevalier

La Vie en Rose.

Madam! Defense de uriner

And 3 hour dejeuners

With lunch times so elastic

What about the guillotine?

Well, ask Louis XVI

You'll find him in the basket

Ask their trawlermen their wish

They'll say "They're notre fish"

To catch in our bateaux

We call it The Channel, they call it La Manche

They eyeball us Rost Biffs, we V-sign La France

Don’t include Hercule Poirot

(He’s Belgian, don’t you know?)

La Vie en Rose.