Yeah, its a good song.
More great songs by Brel
- Le moribond
- Vesoul
- Marieke

Oh
could you ad a "chanson" tag? - and remove the bowie tag

Ok, I replaced it with another recording, if possible, this one is even better ,I wouldnt normally do this, bu it has subtitles for us non-french speakers, and it makes a huge diffence to get the lyrics, if you havent heard the english version (or know french)

That was entirely too huge a beatup for a fairly 'eh' song I'm afraid.

Great song!
Here is the Dutch version of the song, it's the best quality version I could find, still pretty crappy though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekz5k9KFgAM
I thought it might be appropriate, it being about a Dutch city.
The song is called "Acda en de Munnik - De Stad Amsterdam"

so influential - in so many different genres too.

I grew up to this music (don't ask) English version from the 1966 Broadway version seems to be back in print: http://www.amazon.com/Jacques-Alive-Living-Original-Off-Broadway/dp/B000067AS5/ref=pd_bbs_3/002-1240614-4312061?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1178828956&sr=8-3

Ain't that Greensleeves?

Previously: http://www.videosift.com/video/Jacques-Brel-Ne-me-quitte-pas

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I'm so pleased to see this on the sift.
Brel is great, and even if he was, in fact, Belgian, he's the eternal pride of the french speaking people.

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This version is regrettably cut off in both ends, but it has the english subtitles. Powerful performance.

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