Can you remember what the song was?

French, or Italian? Important, because if Italian, it indicates only their own ethnicity/language; if French, then more "foreignness"/poshness/Maerchen-like "distancing" of the tale.

Ah well, a translation of the Clooney French refrain will turn up when it turns up.      

I will try when I can to put the rest of the French story into metrical for, and I will write up a note on the difference between original and English derivation and see if anyone wants to print it.

Sanjay Sircar