| C'était l’pus beau, c'était l’pus gros
| It was the most beautiful, it was the biggest
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| Comm' qui dirait l’Emp’reur des dos
| Like who would say the Emperor of the backs
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| I' gouvernait à la barrière
| I' was steering at the gate
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| A la Glacière
| At the Glacier
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| Son pèr', qu’est mort à soixante ans
| His father, who died at sixty years old
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| L’avait r’levée aussi dans l’temps;
| Had also raised her in time;
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| Sa mère avait été daufière
| His mother had been a daufière
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| A la Glacière
| At the Glacier
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| Lui, quand il était tout petit
| Him, when he was little
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| I' f’sait des galipet’s dans l’lit
| I do some somersaults in the bed
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| D’la Bièv' qu’est eun’joli' rivière
| Of the Bièv' what is a pretty river
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| A la Glacière
| At the Glacier
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| Plus tard i' conduisit les veaux
| Later he drove the calves
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| Après i' fit trotter les ch’vaux
| Afterwards he made the horses trot
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| En s’agrippant à leur crinière
| By clinging to their mane
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| A la Glacière
| At the Glacier
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| Quand i' fallait r’cevoir un gnon
| When I had to receive a gnomon
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| Ou bouffer l’nez d’un maquignon
| Or eat a horse dealer's nose
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| Il était jamais en arrière
| He was never back
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| A la Glacière
| At the Glacier
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| I' racontait, avec orgueil
| I' told, with pride
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| Qu’i s’avait fait crever un œil
| That he had his eye gouged out
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| Un soir, au coin d’eun’pissotière
| One evening, at the corner of a pissotière
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| A la Glacière
| At the Glacier
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| I' parlait aussi d’un marron…
| I was also talking about a chestnut...
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| D’eun’nuit qu’on y avait sonné l’front
| Of eun'night that we had sounded the forehead there
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| Ca y avait r’tourné la caf’tière
| It had turned the cafetiere back to it
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| A la Glacière
| At the Glacier
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| I' vient d’tomber comme un César
| I just fell like a Caesar
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| Comme un princ' du sang, comme un czar
| Like a blood prince, like a czar
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| On l’a crevé la s’main' dernière
| We killed it last week
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| A la Glacière
| At the Glacier
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| C’est pas un gros, c’est un p’tit mac
| It's not a big one, it's a little mac
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| Qui y a mis d’l’air dans l’estomac
| Who put air in the stomach
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| En y faisant eun’boutonnière
| By making it a buttonhole
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| A la Glacière
| At the Glacier
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| C'était l’pus beau, c'était l’pus gros
| It was the most beautiful, it was the biggest
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| Comm' qui dirait l’Emp’reur des dos
| Like who would say the Emperor of the backs
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| I' gouvernait à la barrière
| I' was steering at the gate
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| A la Glacière | At the Glacier |