This day in music history.

October 11, 1963, Edith Piaf died in Paris, France. Her life story has been embellished over the years with rumor and anecdote so even after various biographies, its facts and its fictions are often blurred. It is however certain that her earliest years were marked by dire poverty and struggle. Born in 1915, at the age of 15 she struck out on her own as a street-singer, by 1935 she graduated to cabaret and in December of 35 recorded her first record. The peak of Piaf's stardom spanned the immediate post-war decade 1945-1955. World renown came her way following her 1947 American tour. Piaf appeared in several movies, starring in Le Bel Indiffrent (1940).
La vie en rose by Edith Piaf
Des yeux qui font baiser les miens,
Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche,
Voila le portrait sans retouche
De l'homme auquel j'appartiens
Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas,
Je vois la vie en rose.
Il me dit des mots d'amour,
Des mots de tous les jours,
Et ca me fait quelque chose.
Il est entre dans mon coeur
Une part de bonheur
Dont je connais la cause.
C'est lui pour moi.
Moi pour lui Dans la vie,
Il me l'a dit, l'a jure pour la vie.
Et des que je l'apercois
Alors je sens en moi
Mon coeur qui bat
Des nuits d'amour a ne plus en finir
Un grand bonheur qui prend sa place
Des enuis des chagrins, des phases
Heureux, heureux a en mourir.
Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas,
Je vois la vie en rose.
Il me dit des mots d'amour,
Des mots de tous les jours,
Et ca me fait quelque chose.
Il est entre dans mon coeur
Une part de bonheur
Dont je connais la cause.
C'est toi pour moi. Moi pour toi
Dans la vie, Il me l'a dit, l'a jure pour la vie.
Et des que je l'apercois
Alors je sens en moi
Mon coeur qui bat
Bad English translation...
The eyes that make mine lower
A laughter that gets lost on his mouth
There is the portrait without retouchings
Of the man which I belong to
When he takes me in his arms
He speaks me all bottom
I see life in rose (pink)
He tells me words of love
The words of every day
And that made me something
He entered in my heart
A part of happiness
Of which I know the reason
It is he for me, me for him, in life
He told it to me
it swore him for life
And as soon as I see him
Then I feel in me
My heart that beats
Of love nights more to finish
A big happiness that takes his room
Boredoms, griefs fade away
Happy, happy to die
When he takes me in his arms
He speaks me all bottom
I see life in rose (pink)
He tells me of love words
The words of every day
And that made me something
He entered in my heart
A part of happiness
Of which I know the reason
It is you for me, me for you, in life
You told it\the ace juror\for life, to me
And as soon as I see you
Then I feel in me
My heart that beats