Quand j a copy;tais chez mon pa?re
apprenti pastoureau
il m a mis dans la lande
pour garder les troupiaux.
Troupiauxtroupiaux
je n en avais gua?re.
Troupiauxtroupiaux
je n en avais biaux.

Mais je n en avais gua?re
je n avais qu trois agneaux;
et le loup de la plaine
m a manga copy; la plus biau.
Troupiauxtroupiaux...


Il a copy;tait si vorace
n a laissa copy; que la piau
n a laissa copy; que la queue
pour mettre a mon chapiau.
Troupiauxtroupiaux...


Mais des os de la ba?te
me fis un chalumiau
pour jouer a la fa?te
a la fa?t du hamiau.
Troupiauxtroupiaux...


Pour fair danser l village
dessous le grandormiau
et les jeun s et les vieilles
les pieds dan les sabiots.
Troupiauxtroupiaux...





When I lived with my father

When I lived with my father
as an apprentice shepherd
he sent me to the moor
to look after the sheep.
Sheepsheep
I had but a few.
Sheepsheep
I had none that were bonny.


NoI had but a few
I had but three lambs;
and the wolf from the plain
ate the finest of those.
Sheepsheep...


He was so ravenous
he left only the pelt
he left only the tail
to put on my hat.
Sheepsheep...


But the bones of the animal
made me pipe
to play at the fair
at the village fair.
Sheepsheep...


So the village could dance
beneath the great elm
young women and old
with clogs on their feet.
Sheepsheep...

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