| Si quelque fille aux yeux d’ange
| If some girl with angel eyes
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| D’aventure vous demande
| Adventure asks you
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| Comment sont nées les étoiles de mer
| How Starfish Are Born
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| Faîtes-lui croire
| make him believe
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| Cette belle histoire
| This beautiful story
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| Un petit clair de lune
| A little moonlight
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| Amoureux fou d’une étoile
| madly in love with a star
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| Sur trois planches de fortune
| On three makeshift boards
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| Chaque nuit tissait des voiles
| Every night weaved sails
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| Et sur cette caravelle
| And on this caravel
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| S’en allait voir sa belle
| Was going to see his beautiful
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| Le petit clair de lune
| The Little Moonlight
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| Lui offrait ses beaux mirages
| Offered him his beautiful mirages
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| Et ses joies l’une après l’une
| And his joys one after one
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| Pour l’inviter au voyage
| To invite him to travel
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| Mais malgré tout son beau zèle
| But despite all his fine zeal
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| Lui répondait la belle
| replied the beautiful
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| Tin tin tin doux clair de lune
| Tin tin tin sweet moonlight
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| Tin tin tin même si tu étais pleine lune
| Tin tin tin even if you were full moon
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| Jamais ne t’aimerai
| I will never love you
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| Le petit clair de lune
| The Little Moonlight
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| Emporté par un nuage
| Carried away by a cloud
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| En pleurant son infortune
| Mourning his misfortune
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| Dans l’océan fit naufrage
| In the ocean was shipwrecked
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| Et regardant la cruelle
| And gazing at the cruel
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| Il se noya pour elle
| He drowned for her
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| Tiens tiens tiens se dit l'étoile
| Hey, hey, says the star
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| Tiens tiens tiens je n’ai pas d’amoureux
| Well, well, I don't have a lover
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| Qui le vaille
| who is worth it
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| C'était donc si sérieux
| So it was so serious
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| Le petit clair de lune
| The Little Moonlight
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| La voyant frôler les vagues
| Seeing her brush the waves
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| Lui proposa sans rancune
| Proposed to him without resentment
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| Tout son coeur contre une bague
| All her heart for a ring
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| Alors elle, pour lui plaire
| So she, to please him
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| Se jeta dans la mer
| threw himself into the sea
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| Alors elle, pour lui plaire
| So she, to please him
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| Se jeta dans la mer
| threw himself into the sea
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| Alors elle, pour lui plaire
| So she, to please him
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| Se jeta dans la mer | threw himself into the sea |