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Overture: translation of foreign lines?

posted 13 years ago by dogmatix-4
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In the opening song, 'Paint Your Wagon', several lines are sung in foreign tongues (to emphasise the mixed origins of the gold diggers). The DVD has subtitles, but the lines are not translated. Does anyone know or know where I can find the full lyrics with foreign bits?

[–] DryToast 13 years ago

They must be close to the English lyrics because what I can make out of the French and the Russian both contain the line "Where am I going? I don't know."

You may as well go to perdition in ermine; you're sure to come back in rags.