Here's the Traditional Ballad Index entry on this song:

Un Canadien Errant

DESCRIPTION: Canadian French: A Canadien rebel has been forced from his home. Stopping by a stream, he bids it -- should it flow through his homeland -- to greet his friends. He promises not to forget his homeland
AUTHOR: M. A. Gerin-Lajoie
EARLIEST DATE: 1842
KEYWORDS: exile rebellion Canada foreignlanguage
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1837 - Revolt in Canada. The failure of the uprising forces many rebels into exile
FOUND IN: Canada(Que)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Fowke/Johnston-FolkSongsOfCanada, pp. 26-27, "Un Canadien Errant" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Mills/Blume-CanadasStoryInSong, pp. 82-84, "Un Canadien Errant" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan-PenguinBookOfCanadianFolkSongs 4, "Un Canadien Errant" (1 English and 1 French version, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 339, "Un Canadien Errant (An Exiled Canadien)" (1 text)
DT, CANADERR
ADDITIONAL: Edith Fowke and Richard Johnston, _Folk Songs of Quebec (Chansons de Quebec)_, Waterloo Music Company, 1957, pp. 16-17, "Un Canadien Errant (Once a Canadian Lad" (1 French text plus English translation, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Un Canadien Errant" (on PeteSeeger29)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "An Anti-Rebel Song" (subject)
cf. "Farewell to Mackenzie" (subject)
cf. "Les Metamorphoses" (tune)
NOTES [25 words]: For further details about the Canadian revolt, caused by the oppression of an oligarchic government, see the songs mentioned in the cross-references. - RBW
Last updated in version 3.1
File: FJ026

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Here are the Digital Tradition lyrics. Any corrections?

UN CANADIEN ERRANT
(M.A. Gerin-Lajoie)

Un Canadien errant banis de ses foyers (2x)
Parcourait en pleurant des pays etrangers (2x)

Les jours di pleins d'acord vous etiez disparus (2x)
Et ma patrie helas je ne la verrai plus (2x)]

Un jour triste et pensif assis au bord des flots (2x)
Au courant fugitif il addresse ces mots. (2x)

Si tu vois mon pays mon pays malheureux (2x)
Va, dis a mes amis que je me souviens deux (2x)

O jours si pleins d'appas vous etes disparus (2x)
Et ma patrie, helas! Je ne verrai plus! (2x)

Non, mais en expirant, O mon cher Canada(2x)
Mon regard languissant vers toi se portera (2x)

Note: Written by a French Canada who took part in a rebellion
in Canada in the 1930's and was exiled from Canada.


Written by an exile in New York State from the rebellion in
Lower Canada, 1837. Verse 2 is later addition JB
Recorded by Ian and Sylvia
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