Milord, Monnot & Moustaki arr. Mathias Vleugels Concert Band

Composer: Marguerite Monnot & George Moustaki
Arranger: Mathias Vleugels
Instrumentation: Concert Band Orchestre dHarmonie - Blasorchester
Grade: 3-4
Duration: 3'40''
Item number: BVT192

"Milord" is a 1959 song (lyrics by Georges Moustaki, music by Marguerite Monnot), famously sung by Édith Piaf. It is a chanson that recounts the feelings of a lower-class "girl of the port" who develops a crush on an elegantly attired apparent upper-class British traveller (or "milord"), whom she has seen walking the streets of the town several times (with a beautiful young woman on his arm), but who has not even noticed her. The singer feels that she is nothing more than a "shadow of the street".