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Les corons
Les Corons: the anthem of the North sung at every half-time at Bollaert.
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Every half-time at Stade Bollaert-Delelis, the whole stadium takes up Les Corons together. This ode to the northern mining communities and the coal miners who built them has become RC Lens's defining anthem, heard across all of France. Full lyrics right here.
Lyrics for Les corons
Et c'était mon enfance
Et elle était heureuse
Dans la buée des lessiveuses
Et j'avais les terrils
A défaut de montagnes
D'en haut je voyais la campagne
Mon père était geule noire
Comme l'étaient ses parents
Ma mère avait les cheveux blancs
Ils étaient de la fosse
Comme on l'est d'un pays
Grâce a eux je sais qui je suis
Au nord c'étaient les corons
La terre c'était le charbon
Le ciel c'était l'horizon
Les hommes des mineurs de fond...
Read it in English
And that was my childhood, and she was happy,
In the mist of washing machines,
And I had heaps failing mountains,
From above I saw the countryside,
My father was a "black mouth" as were his parents,
My mother had white hair,
They were of the pit, as it is a country,
Thanks to them I know who I am ...
To the north were the settlements,
The land was coal,
The sky was the horizon,
Men underground miners...
Language · French
Team · Lens
Behind the chant
When was Les corons first sung?
First sung from the Bollaert-Delelis stands on 19 February 2005 as a spontaneous tribute, filling the entire stadium.
What's the story behind Les corons?
Since February 2005 the Lens faithful have sung Les Corons at every half-time at Bollaert, a tradition that began as a spontaneous tribute from the whole stadium and has never stopped.
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