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"Milord" (pronounced: [milɔʀ]) or "Ombre de la Rue" ([ɔmbʀə dø la ʀy]) 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" (perhaps a prostitute) 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" (ombre de la rue).
The song was a #1-hit in Germany in July 1960. In UK it reached #24 (1960), in Norway #6 (1959), and in the United States #88 (Billboard Hot 100 in 1961).
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