We were not made to sing a certain French folk song. A student started us off on it (in secondary school), but the French head of department banned it. Naturally I went in search of it, and found it.

It began (excuse my French)

Il etait un petit navire, (bis)
Qui n'avait ja-ja-jamais navigue (bis)

Il entempris un longue voyage
Le long de co-co-cote de Guinea

Au bout de cinque a six semaine
Le vivres vin-vin-vinrent a manque

On tira a la courte paille
Pour savez qui-qui-qui serai mange

Le sort tomba a le plus jeune
Qui n'avait ja-ja-jamais navigue

On le manga a la sauce blanche
Avec des sal-sal-salsifis par cuit.

This is different from the version in the Digitrad. Which version she was worried about I don't know. Given that she had worked in the Resistance in France during the war, she might have felt death not suitable for joking.

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