| J’avais l’plus bel amandier
| I had the most beautiful almond tree
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| Du quartier
| Neighborhood
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| Et, pour la bouche gourmande
| And, for the greedy mouth
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| Des filles du monde entier
| Girls all over the world
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| J' faisais pousser des amandes:
| I was growing almonds:
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| Le beau, le joli métier !
| The beautiful, the pretty job!
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| Un écureuil en jupon
| A squirrel in a petticoat
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| Dans un bond
| In a leap
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| Vint me dir': «Je suis gourmande
| Came to tell me, "I'm greedy
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| Et mes lèvres sentent bon
| And my lips smell good
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| Et, si tu m’donn’s une amande
| And, if you give me an almond
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| J’te donne un baiser fripon !
| I give you a cheeky kiss!
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| — Grimpe aussi haut que tu veux
| — Climb as high as you want
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| Que tu peux
| that you can
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| Et tu croqu’s, et tu picores
| And you bite, and you peck
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| Puis tu grignot’s, et puis tu
| Then you nibble's, and then you
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| Redescends plus vite encore
| Come back down even faster
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| Me donner le baiser dû !»
| Give me the kiss due!"
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| Quand la belle eut tout rongé
| When beauty had gnawed everything
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| Tout mangé…
| Ate it all...
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| «Je te paierai, me dit-elle
| "I'll pay you," she told me
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| A pleine bouche quand les
| With full mouth when the
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| Nigauds seront pourvus d’ailes
| Boobies will be provided with wings
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| Et que tu sauras voler !
| And that you will know how to fly!
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| «Mont' m’embrasser si tu veux
| 'Mont' kiss me if you want
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| Si tu peux…
| Whether you can…
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| Mais dis-toi que, si tu tombes
| But tell yourself that if you fall
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| J’n’aurai pas la larme à l’oeil
| I won't have tears in my eyes
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| Dis-toi que, si tu succombes
| Tell yourself that if you succumb
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| Je n’porterai pas le deuil !»
| I won't mourn!"
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| Les avait, bien entendu
| Of course had them
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| Toutes mordues
| All bitten
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| Tout’s grignoté's, mes amandes
| Everything's nibbled's, my almonds
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| Ma récolte était perdue
| My harvest was lost
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| Mais sa joli' bouch' gourmande
| But her pretty greedy mouth
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| En baisers m’a tout rendu !
| In kisses gave me back everything!
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| Et la fête dura tant
| And the party lasted so long
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| Qu’le beau temps…
| That the good weather...
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| Mais vint l’automne, et la foudre
| But came the fall, and the lightning
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| Et la pluie, et les autans
| And the rain, and the autans
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| Ont changé mon arbre en poudre…
| Turned my tree to powder...
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| Et mon amour en mêm' temps ! | And my love at the same time! |