# Looking for french 70/80's song title (got some lyrics)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 21, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-french-70-80s-song-title-got-some-lyrics/280979 "2004-12-21T15:32:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-french-70-80s-song-title-got-some-lyrics/280979/1 "2004-12-21T15:32:42Z")

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There was a song that was popular around the 80’s (or possibly the 70’s) that I think is french. It has a prominent electric guitar in it and from what I can remember the lyrics are something like…  
blah blah whiskey apple face blah blah… woooo eee oooo uuuuhhh  
then 4 syllables that are repeated a few times… maybe “fransay do blah”  
Then eventually there is a guitar solo…  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-french-70-80s-song-title-got-some-lyrics/280979/2 "2004-12-21T15:58:50Z")

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Ca plane pour moi, Plastic Bertrand.

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**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-french-70-80s-song-title-got-some-lyrics/280979/3 "2004-12-21T16:00:46Z")

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> [@JohnClay](#):
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> There was a song that was popular around the 80’s (or possibly the 70’s) that I think is french. It has a prominent electric guitar in it and from what I can remember the lyrics are something like…  
> blah blah whiskey apple face blah blah… woooo eee oooo uuuuhhh  
> then 4 syllables that are repeated a few times… maybe “fransay do blah”  
> Then eventually there is a guitar solo…  
> Thanks.

It looks like that 1977 smash, “Ca Plane Pour Moi” by [Plastic Bertrand](http://www.famousbelgians.net/bertrand.htm)

The Lyrics are [here.](http://www.lyricmall.com/lyrics/93201/Plastic_Bertrand/Ca_Plane_Pour_Moi)

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**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-french-70-80s-song-title-got-some-lyrics/280979/4 "2004-12-21T16:01:57Z")

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Drat. Beaten by seconds.

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-french-70-80s-song-title-got-some-lyrics/280979/5 "2004-12-21T19:11:50Z")

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Hey all you dopers. That took over 20 minutes! This is unacceptable!

I want all questions to very vague questions will be answered in less than 20 minutes or they get free crazy bread!  
You’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean people!

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**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-french-70-80s-song-title-got-some-lyrics/280979/6 "2004-12-22T01:41:59Z")

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Cool thanks everyone.