Le Plat Pays
| "Le Plat Pays" | |
|---|---|
7" vinyl single cover | |
| Song by Jacques Brel | |
| from the album Les Bourgeois | |
| Released | 1962 |
| Recorded | March 6, 1962 |
| Genre | Chanson |
| Length | 2:37 |
| Label | Barclay |
| Songwriter(s) | Jacques Brel |
"Le Plat Pays" (Translation: 'The Flat Country') is a French-language song by Belgian singer Jacques Brel about his home country. It also exists in a Dutch-language version as "Mijn vlakke land" ('My Flat Country'), also performed by him. The French lyrics are by Jacques Brel, the Dutch lyrics by Ernst van Altena.