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unusual facts about L'amour s'en va


À force de prier

The song was performed sixteenth on the night, following Monaco's Françoise Hardy with "L'amour s'en va".


Mambrú

for the Spanish traditional song "Mambrú se fue a la guerra", see Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre

Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre

The English version shown below was written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the 19th Century.

It is said that a French gentleman wishing, when in London, to be driven to Marlborough Street, had totally forgotten its name; but on humming the tune, the coachman drove him to the proper address with no other direction.

In pop culture it is sung by Rasputine in Hugo Pratt's "The Golden House of Samarkand" Corto Maltese adventure, first issued in 1980 (French and Italian version).


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