| Alouette, gentille alouette
| Lark, nice lark
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| Alouette, je te plumerai
| Alouette I will pluck you
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| Alouette, gentille alouette, alouette
| Lark, nice lark, lark
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| Une souris verte qui fumait de l’herbe
| A green mouse smoking weed
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| Qui en fait qu'à sa tête et qui gonflait les pec'
| Who does as he pleases and who swells the pec'
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| Je la montre à ces messieurs
| I show it to these gentlemen
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| Ces messieurs me disent: «Oh, mon ami, faut arrêter de boire, repartir à
| These gentlemen say to me, "Oh, my friend, we have to stop drinking, go back to
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| l'école, arrêter la beuh»
| school, quit weed"
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| Donc on me méprise, on croit que j’hallucine
| So they despise me, they think I'm hallucinating
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| Quand les chats ne sont pas là, les souris dansent
| When the cats aren't around, the mice are dancing
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| Quand les chats ne sont pas là, les souris dansent
| When the cats aren't around, the mice are dancing
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| Oh oh
| Oh oh
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| Frère Jacques, frère Jacques, dormez-vous? | Brother Jacques, Brother Jacques, are you sleeping? |
| Dormez-vous?
| Are you sleeping?
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| J’ai dit «ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong»
| I said "ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong"
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| Ding, ding, ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong
| Ding, ding, ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong
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| Au clair de la lune, mon ami Pierrot
| In the moonlight, my friend Pierrot
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| Faut rendre mes thunes, tu fuis mon numéro
| Gotta give my money back, you run from my number
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| T’as une nouvelle voiture, faut rendre mes euros
| You have a new car, you have to return my euros
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| Un jour sous la lune, je vais t’attraper, Pierrot
| One day under the moon, I'll catch you, Pierrot
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| Maya, mwana mabé (elle est mabé)
| Maya, mwana mabé (she is mabé)
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| Winnie, o lelaka boisson (kiffe la boisson)
| Winnie, o lelaka drink (like the drink)
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| Maya, mwana mabé (elle est mabé)
| Maya, mwana mabé (she is mabé)
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| Winnie, o lelaka boisson
| Winnie, o lelaka drink
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| Alouette, petite alouette
| lark, little lark
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| Alouette, je te plumerai
| Alouette I will pluck you
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| Alouette, petite alouette, alouette
| lark, little lark, lark
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| Frère Jacques, frère Jacques, dormez-vous? | Brother Jacques, Brother Jacques, are you sleeping? |
| Dormez-vous?
| Are you sleeping?
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| J’ai dit «ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong»
| I said "ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong"
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| Ding, ding, ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong
| Ding, ding, ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong
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| Alouette, gentille alouette
| Lark, nice lark
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| Alouette, je te plumerai
| Alouette I will pluck you
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| Alouette, gentille alouette, alouette
| Lark, nice lark, lark
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| Fais dodo, Colas mon p’tit frère
| Sleep, Colas my little brother
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| Fais dodo, t’auras des gâteaux
| Sleep, you will have cakes
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| Frère Jacques, frère Jacques, dormez-vous? | Brother Jacques, Brother Jacques, are you sleeping? |
| Dormez-vous?
| Are you sleeping?
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| J’ai dit «ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong»
| I said "ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong"
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| Ding, ding, ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong | Ding, ding, ding, ding, dong, ding, ding, dong |