Nursery/children's rhyme

"COCUT ! ENT AS JAGUT ?" (Occitan -Lengadocian dialect) "Cocut ! Ent as jagut ?" "Al Mont Agut !" "Que i as fach ?" "Un ostal traucat !" "Qual t'a adujat a lo far ?" "Monsur Bernat !" "De que li as donat ?" "Un uòu coat !" "De que n'as fach ?" "L'ai vendut !" "Quant n'as fach ?" "Cent escuts !" RADdO : 06366.

"CUCKOO! WHERE DID YOU SLEEP?" "Cuckoo! Where did you sleep?" "At Montagut!" (1) "What did you make there?" "A pierced house!" "Who helped you to make it?" "Mister Bernat" "What did you give him?" "A hatched egg! "What did you do with it?" "I sold it!" "How much did you sell it for?" "A hundred crowns!"

(1) lit.: "on the peaked mount"
I don't know if we must look for a pun between the cuckoo building a house with a hole in it with the help of someone else and the fact that "cocut" in Occitan means cuckoo AND cuckold.

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