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Thread #169209   Message #4172833
Posted By: Monique
22-May-23 - 02:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Mudcat singaround songs NOT in English
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mudcat singaround songs NOT in English
C’ÉTAIT UN PETIT MATELOT (French)

C’était un petit matelot
Sur les flots de la mer indienne
C’était un petit matelot
Oh, oh, petit matelot.

Voguait de Brest jusqu’à Frisco
Sur les flots de la mer indienne
Un jour le temps se fit très gros
Oh, oh, petit matelot.

Serr’ les voiles tout le monde en haut
Sur les flots de la mer indienne
Tomb' de plus de vingt mètr's de haut
Oh, oh, petit matelot.

Et l’on mit la chaloupe à l’eau
Sur les flots de la mer indienne
Pour vite le tirer des flots
Oh, oh, petit matelot

Mais on n' sauva que son chapeau
Sur les flots de la mer indienne
Sa vieille pipe et ses sabots,
Oh, oh, petit matelot.

Peut-être bien qu' le p’tit matelot
Sur les flots de la mer indienne
Est dans le ventr' d’un cachalot
Oh, oh, petit matelot.
THERE WAS A LITTLE SAILOR

There was a little sailor
On the Indian sea waves,
There was a little sailor,
Oh, oh, little sailor.

He sailed from Brest to Frisco
On the Indian sea waves,
One day the weather went very rough
Oh, oh, little sailor.

Furl the sails, everybody high up
On the Indian sea waves,
Falls from more than twenty meters high
Oh, oh, little sailor.

And they launched the lifeboat
On the Indian sea waves,
To quickly pull him out of the sea
Oh, oh, little sailor.

But they only rescued his hat
On the Indian sea waves,
His old pipe and his clogs,
Oh, oh, little sailor.

Maybe the little sailor
On the Indian sea waves,
Is inside a toothed whale belly
Oh, oh, little sailor.
Live rendition by Les Couillons de Tomé

Rendition by Jean-Melchior Delpias


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