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Thread #168841   Message #4078362
Posted By: Monique
05-Nov-20 - 02:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: La Mule (French)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: La Mule (French)
On this album, there's also "Les sept jours de mai" also called "La perdriole". You can see a version on this Mudcat thread. We also have it on Mama Lisa's World with an English translation. It's the same theme as "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Here is Malicorne's version:
LES SEPT JOURS DE MAI

1. Le premier jour de mai
C’que j’donnerai à ma mie sera
Une perdriole qui va qui vient qui vole
Que j’donnerai à ma mie charmante

2. Le deuxième jour de mai
C’que j’donnerai à ma mie sera
Deux tourterelles
Une perdriole qui va qui vient qui vole
Que j’donnerai à ma mie charmante

3 ...trois chiens courants...

4 ...quatre canards sauvages...

5 ...cinq lièvres aux champs...

6 ...six agneaux de lait...

7 ...sept saumons d’argent...
THE SEVEN DAYS OF MAY

1. On the first day of May
What I'll give to my sweetheart will be
A partridge that goes, that comes, that flies
That I will give to my lovely sweetheart.

2. On the second day of May
What I'll give to my sweetheart will be
Two turtledoves
A partridge that goes, that comes, that flies
That I will give to my lovely sweetheart.

3 ... three hounds ...

4 ... four wild ducks ...

5 ... five hares in the fields ...

6 ... six suckling lambs ...

7 ... seven silver salmon ...