Seasons In The Sun is an immensely popular yet deeply melancholic Pop Ballad/Folk Pop track, performed by the Canadian singer and songwriter Terry Jacks. The song was released in late 1973 and exploded to become one of the biggest-selling singles of all time during 1974. The song is an English adaptation of the French song "Le Moribond" (The Dying Man), originally written and performed by Belgian singer Jacques Brel in 1961. The English lyrics were translated by the American poet Rod McKuen and