The tune came to him while he was traveling by train in 1943 between Montpellier and Perpignan as he was gazing out of the window at the Étang de Thau, a lagoon in the south of France. Trenet said that he had written an initial version of the song's lyrics as a poem at the age of 16, many years before he came up with a tune for it. When Trenet's version was released in 1946, it became an unexpected hit, and has remained a chanson classic and jazz standard ever since. The song was first recorded by the French singer Roland Gerbeau in 1945. " La Mer" ("The Sea") is a song by the French composer, lyricist, singer and showman Charles Trenet.
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