Poor Martin

Pauvre Martin is a Georges Brassens song, created in 1953, on the album Le Vent .

Theme

In this sad and melancholic song, inspired by the work of François Villon , Brassens evokes the situation of agricultural wage-earners and small landowners who work on a small farm and who derive the minimum living, modestly, without complaining.

Repetitions, adaptations or inspirations

• Barbara resumes the song in 1969 .
• Jean Ferrat is inspired by it in “Bicentennial” , a song where he takes up the verse: “Poor Martin, poor misery …”.
• The song was the subject of an adaptation in Berber language (Tamazight) by the Algerian letter man Mohya. Thus, poor Martin becomes “Muhh n Muhh” ^{[ref. necessary]} .
• Gutter Demons ¹ resume the song on the album Room 209 ² .

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