| Au temps, au bon temps
| In time, in good time
|
| Des rois fainéants
| lazy kings
|
| Ti qui tic qui tic !
| Ti qui tic qui tic!
|
| Les jours et les nuits
| Days and nights
|
| Se passaient au lit
| Happened in bed
|
| Ti qui tic qui tic !
| Ti qui tic qui tic!
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| Traînés par des bœufs
| Drawn by oxen
|
| Dans un char moelleux
| In a fluffy chariot
|
| On faisait Paris-Orléans
| We were doing Paris-Orleans
|
| En trois ans, tout en taquinant
| In three years, while teasing
|
| Les belles pucell’s en passant…
| The beautiful maidens by the way...
|
| Au temps, au bon temps
| In time, in good time
|
| Des rois fainéants
| lazy kings
|
| Ti qui tic qui tic !
| Ti qui tic qui tic!
|
| D’un’main on mangeait
| With one hand we ate
|
| De l’autre on buvait
| On the other we were drinking
|
| Ti qui tic qui tic !
| Ti qui tic qui tic!
|
| L’amour se chantait
| Love was singing
|
| Sur des fluviaux d’or
| On rivers of gold
|
| Et les belles offraient les trésors
| And the beauties offered the treasures
|
| De leurs corps
| Of their bodies
|
| Aux rois fainéants
| To lazy kings
|
| Les baladins jouaint du bilboquet
| The strollers played bilboquet
|
| Et les menestrels grattaient leurs viell’s
| And the minstrels scratched their viell's
|
| Et tous les bouffons dansaient en rond:
| And all the jesters were dancing around:
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| C'était toujours la fête !
| It was always a party!
|
| Tous les manants, badauds criaient
| All the peasants, onlookers were shouting
|
| «Bravo !»
| "Cheer !"
|
| Et parfois, pour un privilégié
| And sometimes for a privileged
|
| Le bon roi disait à son bourreau:
| The good king said to his executioner:
|
| «Oh ! | "Oh ! |
| Coupez-lui la tête !
| Cut off his head!
|
| Ça lui fera les pieds !
| It will make him happy!
|
| Foutez-moi la paix !»
| Give me a break !"
|
| Au temps, au bon temps
| In time, in good time
|
| Des rois fainéants
| lazy kings
|
| Ti qui tic qui tic !
| Ti qui tic qui tic!
|
| T’aurais eu ma reine
| You would have had my queen
|
| Un beau diadème
| A beautiful tiara
|
| Ti qui tic qui tic !
| Ti qui tic qui tic!
|
| Parmi les oiseaux
| among the birds
|
| Au bord des ruisseaux
| By the streams
|
| Je te vois, quenouillant le lin
| I see you dabbling linen
|
| Enfin bref, comm’dirait Pépin
| Anyway, as Pépin would say
|
| Chacun doit mériter son pain !
| Everyone must earn their bread!
|
| Au temps, au bon temps
| In time, in good time
|
| Des rois fainéants
| lazy kings
|
| Ti qui tic qui tic !
| Ti qui tic qui tic!
|
| T’aurais pas aimé
| You wouldn't have liked
|
| Me voir travailler
| See me work
|
| Ti qui tic qui tic !
| Ti qui tic qui tic!
|
| Alors, mon amour
| So, my love
|
| Ne crie pas toujours
| don't always shout
|
| Laisse-moi dormir
| Let me sleep
|
| Et sourire
| And smile
|
| Au bon temps
| In good times
|
| Des rois fainéants
| lazy kings
|
| Ti qui tic qui tic !
| Ti qui tic qui tic!
|
| Des rois fainéants
| lazy kings
|
| Ti qui tic qui tic !
| Ti qui tic qui tic!
|
| Des rois fainéants!
| Lazy kings!
|
| Ha! | Ha! |
| Je suis fatigué moi! | I'm tired myself! |