| Un fiacre allait, trottinant,
| A horse-drawn carriage went trotting along,
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| Cahin, caha,
| Cahin, caha,
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| Hu, dia, hop là !
| Hu, dia, hop there!
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| Un fiacre allait, trottinant,
| A horse-drawn carriage went trotting along,
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| Jaune, avec un cocher blanc.
| Yellow, with a white tick.
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| Derrièr' les stores baissés,
| Behind the lowered blinds,
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| Cahin, caha,
| Cahin, caha,
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| Hu, dia, hop là !
| Hu, dia, hop there!
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| Derrièr' les stores baissés
| Behind the lowered blinds
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| On entendait des baisers.
| You could hear kisses.
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| Puis un' voix disant: «Léon !
| Then a voice saying: “Leon!
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| Cahin, caha,
| Cahin, caha,
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| Hu, dia, hop là !
| Hu, dia, hop there!
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| Puis un' voix disant: «Léon !
| Then a voice saying: “Leon!
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| Pour … causer, ôt' ton lorgnon !»
| To … talk, take off your eyeglasses!”
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| Un vieux monsieur qui passait,
| An old gentleman passing by,
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| Cahin, caha,
| Cahin, caha,
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| Hu, dia, hop là !
| Hu, dia, hop there!
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| Un vieux monsieur qui passait,
| An old gentleman passing by,
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| S'écri': «Mais on dirait qu’c’est
| Screams: "But it seems like it's
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| Ma femme avec un quidam !
| My wife with a guy!
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| Cahin, caha,
| Cahin, caha,
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| Hu, dia, hop là !
| Hu, dia, hop there!
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| Ma femme avec un quidam ! | My wife with a guy! |
| «I' s’lanc' sur le macadam'.
| “I'm going on the tarmac.
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| Mais i' gliss' su' l' sol mouillé,
| But I slipped on the wet ground,
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| Cahin, caha,
| Cahin, caha,
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| Hu, dia, hop là !
| Hu, dia, hop there!
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| Mais i' gliss' su' l' sol mouillé,
| But I slipped on the wet ground,
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| Crac ! | Crack! |
| il est écrabouillé.
| he's crushed.
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| Du fiacre un' dam' sort et dit:
| From the cab a 'dam' comes out and says:
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| Cahin, caha,
| Cahin, caha,
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| Hu, dia, hop là !
| Hu, dia, hop there!
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| Du fiacre un' dam' sort et dit:
| From the cab a 'dam' comes out and says:
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| «Chouett', Léon ! | “Nice, Leon! |
| C’est mon mari !
| It is my husband !
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| Y a plus besoin d' nous cacher,
| There's no need for us to hide anymore,
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| Cahin, caha,
| Cahin, caha,
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| Hu, dia, hop là !
| Hu, dia, hop there!
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| Y a plus besoin d' nous cacher.
| There's no need to hide anymore.
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| Donn' donc cent sous au cocher ! | Give a hundred sous to the coachman! |
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