| Je jouais avec un scarabée
| I was playing with a beetle
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| Vêtu comme un bourgeois cossu
| Dressed like a wealthy bourgeois
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| Manquait un bras à sa poupée
| Her doll was missing an arm
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| Quelqu’un avait marché dessus
| Someone had stepped on it
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| Je berçais mon petit mannequin
| I was rocking my little dummy
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| J’y chantais dors mon petit quiquin
| I sang there sleep my little quiquin
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| Le scarabée va faire dodo
| The beetle is going to sleep
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| Pendant que maman fait du gâteau
| While mum is making cake
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| Ahh
| Ahh
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| Mais c’est moi qui ne dormais plus
| But it was me who was no longer sleeping
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| Je le voyais sortir de l’armoire
| I saw him coming out of the closet
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| Je me grattais le cuir chevelu
| I was scratching my scalp
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| J’allais le chercher dans son tiroir
| I was going to look for it in his drawer
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| Je lui chantais collas mon petit frère
| I used to sing to him collas my little brother
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| Ne fais pas enrager ta mère
| Don't infuriate your mother
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| Il est l’heure d’aller au dodo
| It's bedtime
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| Et pis j’ai tiré la chasse d’eau
| And then I flushed the toilet
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| Ahh
| Ahh
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| Et pourtant mon petit dormeur
| And yet my little sleeper
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| Semblait réapparaitre ailleurs
| Seemed to reappear somewhere else
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| Quand on le croyait dans la fosse
| When we thought he was in the pit
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| Ou quelque part dans le cosmos
| Or somewhere in the cosmos
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| (Quelque part dans le cosmos)
| (Somewhere in the cosmos)
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| Ahh
| Ahh
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| (Merci à mathieu pour cettes paroles) | (Thanks to mathieu for these lyrics) |