Thread: French help: Alger Alger

Interested in the lyrics for this song, I think it's super beautiful and am curious to know what he's singing

I'm guessing it's about how he still loves Algeria (he was exiled):

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfndAriojx8]YouTube - Lili Boniche - Alger Alger[/ame]

Half of it is Arabic.
But as far as I understand he says, Paris is nice, but nothing like Algeria.
Something about the sun...
And how he is attached to Algeria since his childhood.
Many young people regret... (something Arabic)
I call out to you...

MEISSOUN

Lili Boniche is hard to understand, but I have a version where you can understand the lyrics better:

J'aime toutes les villes, un peu plus Paris/ mais rien ne vaut l'Algerie/ comme elle est belle, on l'aime à la folie/ où que l'on soit on ne l'oublie pas/ l'Algérie, on l'aime tant.

I love all cities, Paris a bit more than the rest/ but there is nothing like Algeria/ She is beautiful and we love her to madness/wherever we are, we never forget her/ Algeria how we love her.

But the lyrics how Lili Boniche sings them are there, in the comments:

Jaime, toutes les villes un peu plus Paris
lakin machi comme lAlgerie
Comme elle est belle, ou nhebha bel hbel
Féyineuncoune ma ma nensa
Alger Alger chhal nhabha.

Comment voulez vous, élameune habal ?
Dans son saint, keubrouyima ou baba
De son soleil je ne puis me passer
Depuis mon enfance, en Algerie dans ses rues, sans, me lasser
Qelbi Qelbi, on était pris.

Thanks for the replies.

I saw that the lyrics are in the comments on the video, but my French is very poor and it is a mix of French and Arabic, so I thought I'd post here.

I tried the Babelfish tranlation thingy, and it spewed nonesense.

Thanks Again!