| Non, Toufy, saute pas,
| No, Toufy, don't jump,
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| Si tu sautes, tu mourras;
| If you jump, you will die;
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| Il faut pas te flinguer,
| You don't have to shoot yourself,
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| Il vaut mieux te noyer.
| You better drown.
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| Non, Toufy, pleure pas,
| No, Toufy, don't cry,
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| Une huître, ça pleure pas;
| An oyster doesn't cry;
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| Tu peux pas te noyer,
| You can't drown
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| Tu sais trop bien nager.
| You know how to swim too well.
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| Tes potes sont avec toi:
| Your friends are with you:
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| Jean-Luc, Esméralda,
| Jean-Luc, Esmeralda,
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| Ce poulpe et ce castor
| This octopus and this beaver
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| Qui pleureraient à ta mort
| Who would cry at your death
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| Qu’est-ce que tu fais, Toufy?
| What are you doing, Toufy?
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| C’est pas si moche, la vie;
| It's not so ugly, life;
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| Sauf quand on l’sida,
| Except when we have AIDS,
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| Et le cancer des doigts
| And finger cancer
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| Prends-moi dans tes p’tits bras,
| Take me in your little arms
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| Tant pis si t’en n’as pas;
| Too bad if you don't have one;
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| On courra dans les champs,
| We'll run in the fields,
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| Dans le soleil levant
| Into the rising sun
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| Regarde-moi dans les yeux
| Look me in the eyes
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| Et partons tous les deux
| And let's both go
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| Comme des enfants heureux
| Like happy children
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| Ou des cochons hébreux!
| Or Hebrew pigs!
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| Non, Toufy!
| No, Tufy!
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| Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!
| Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!
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| Splotch!
| Splotch!
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| Mais Toufy a sauté,
| But Toufy jumped,
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| Sa coquille a morflé
| Her shell has chewed away
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| Et le sang a giclé,
| And the blood spurted out,
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| La rue fut salopée;
| The street was messed up;
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| Son coude s’est disloqué,
| His elbow is dislocated,
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| Ses ongles ont explosé,
| Her fingernails exploded,
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| Ses cheveux ont frisé
| Her hair has curled
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| Quand Toufy s’est vautré
| When Toufy wallowed
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| Oncle Toufy est mort (est mort, est mort, est mort)
| Uncle Toufy is dead (died, died, died)
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| On y repense encore:
| We think about it again:
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| Son sourire angélique,
| Her angelic smile,
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| Et ses sourcils typiques
| And his typical eyebrows
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| Maint’nant qu’il est là-haut,
| Now that he's up there
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| Le ciel est bien moins beau,
| The sky is much less beautiful,
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| Les coccinelles n’ont plus
| Ladybugs no longer have
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| Du tout de cuir chevelu
| Scalp at all
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| Toufy, Toufy,
| Toufy, Toufy,
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| Toufy, Toufy!
| Toufy, Toufy!
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| La morale de l’histoire,
| The moral of the story,
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| Petit, tu dois savoir:
| Child, you should know:
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| Une huître dépressive
| A depressed oyster
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| Et un peu trop naïve
| And a little too naive
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| N’a plus toute sa raison
| Has lost his sanity
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| Et se moque des mouflons
| And laugh at the sheep
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| Et quand tu la laisses choir
| And when you let her down
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| Ca tâche le trottoir | It stains the sidewalk |