J'ai quitté mon pays - 1962 - Enrico Macias - Live at the Olympia (1995) and with English Subtitles

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This song is part of a playlist: Best French Songs with English Subtitles - 1960s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOyyuYtKhZM3_-YbxFakXTcGA

See other Best French Songs playlist by different decades with English Subtitles/ Lyrics/Translation:
1910s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOyw6hcs8oA5vBPk9QGOgGZTc
1920s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOyw5nE1xKHdr3HBGp3A9pvcl
1930s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOywIgxegDIPYRhnaujMNtns4
1940s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOyy8BzQzGAlCYj_es05CO3dA
1950s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOyzQWjoXVn2DXiJOMtiRSHjF
1970s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOyyb7A2GvGtnXApOnS7TwLJo
1980s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOyyEqKqQNPkSbVa8aJDv7-PM
1990s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOyyMoCFSO7KAyOt40dvSckX7
2000s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOyysm0NfRv4YPBtxq-IC43Ot
2010s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOyxyqtwvzaAMRxcv_lwWRTKG
2020s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfF6iPRHOyywEfAsqc3TMBgdVwmQGPJM

The info below is from the New York Times:
Hymns of Exile
By Richard HarringtonMarch 19, 1984
WHEN Gaston Ghrenassia boarded the ship that would carry him forever from the sandy shores of Algeria, the song began in his heart.
"Adieu Mon Pays."
Staring into the Mediterranean 23 years ago, with the port of Marseilles lying ahead of him, he matched an emotion to a melody.
"Goodbye My Homeland."
It was not supposed to end like this. The young schoolteacher had been born into a family of artists and musicians. His father, a violinist, had been the leading figure in folkloric Algerian music; his father-in-law, the greatest performer of the native music. He himself had been groomed since age 15 to continue the traditions.
But Ghrenassia was one of the hundreds of thousands of Algerian French, the Blackfeet, left stateless by a revolution. "Adieu," his first song, was both a farewell and a wedge into a new world of music for a disheartened refugee.
A quarter of a century later, that schoolteacher is better known as Enrico Macias, one of a handful of international pop stars who cross borders and languages with relative ease. Macias, who will perform at the Kennedy Center tonight, still sings "Adieu Mon Pays." He has never stopped singing it.
Like so many of the Blackfeet refugees, he drifted between Marseilles and Paris. With a little help from composer Gilbert Becaud and director Raymond Bernard, he recorded "Adieu Mon Pays," and it became a hit.
"It was the story of one million of my brothers," Macias recalls, "and they felt I was the symbol of all the exiled people." It didn't hurt that a national television program addressing the refugee problem decided to use the song as its theme. "When all the people listened to the song, they were concerned, and it was a great change for me to be known." As Enrico Macias.
The last name changed when a secretary at the record plant misunderstood Ghrenassia over the phone: "Adieu Mon Pays" came out by "Macias" and has stuck.
Macias, sings in French (mostly), Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian, Greek, and "a little in English.
Macias' most triumphant moment came five years ago, when, at the personal invitation of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, he became the first Jewish artist to perform publicly in Egypt in more than three decades.
"When, like millions of people in the world, I saw Sadat on television when he went to Jerusalem, I cried. It was such a fantastic event, better than to go on the moon. And then when he spoke at the Knesset, all the speech was the same image of a song I wrote 10 years ago before he came to Jerusalem, 'Le Grand Pardon (Peace).' I wrote a song about peace between Arabs and Jews: we have the same father, Abraham; we are Semitic, we are cousins, we are together. But I didn't know, even in a dream, that Sadat would invite me. He was a great example of peace."
When Macias finally played for 20,000 Egyptians, in front of the Pyramids, he was so emotional he couldn't perform for several minutes. He didn't have that problem later in a private concert in Sadat's home, where he sang in Arabic. "Sadat pointed out his window and said, 'See the desert? Now our brothers are living nearer. The wall of hate has been cracked. There will be no more war.' He was really a fantastic man."
In June, Macias will go back to Egypt (where his records, though officially banned until his first visit, had always been big on the black market), but he has not been able to return to Algeria. "That is still forbidden," he says sadly, "but it will change. This year. Maybe."