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Joe Offer Tune Req: Chevaliers de la Table Ronde (25) RE: req: Chevaliers de la Table Ronde 13 Jul 04


Hey, there's a singable translation in the 1955 edition of Song Fest.
    Let us drink, knights of the round table,
    Let us see if the wine is good.
    Let us drink, knights of the round table,
    Let us see if the wine is good.
    Let us see, oui, oui, oui
    Let us see, non, non, non
    Let us see if the wine is good.
    Let us see, oui, oui, oui
    Let us see, non, non, non
    Let us see if the wine is good.

    If it's good and if it is pleasant
    I will drink it for pleasure sweet
    (repeat)
    I will drink, oui, oui, oui
    I will drink, non, non, non
    I will drink it for pleasure sweet

    I will drink down five or six bottles
    With a gal sitting on my knee

    Knock, knock, knock, sounds upon the door
    I suspect that it is her spouse

    If it is, then the devil sent him
    To disturb me in pleasure sweet

    And if I die may I be buried
    In the cave that is full of wine

    And the country's four biggest drunkards
    Will transport me in my black shroud

    My two feet up on some partition
    And my head right beneath the tap

    On my tombstone I would have written
    "Here asleep lies the king of drunks."

    Now the moral of this long story
    Is to drink while you're still alive.
Gee, and it sounds so romantic in French! Something must have been lost in the translation.
The French lyrics are the same in Song Fest and in Rise Up Singing, and almost the same in the Digital Tradition. Anybody have more verses to contribute?

-Joe Offer-


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