| Il pleuvait fort sur la grand-route
| It was raining hard on the highway
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| Ell' cheminait sans parapluie
| She walked without an umbrella
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| J’en avais un, vol, sans doute
| I had one, theft, no doubt
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| Le matin mme un ami
| In the morning even a friend
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| Courant alors sa rescousse
| Then running to his rescue
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| Je lui propose un peu d’abri
| I offer her some shelter
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| En schant l’eau de sa frimousse
| Drying the water from her face
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| D’un air trs doux, ell' m’a dit «oui "
| With a very sweet air, she said to me "yes"
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| Un p’tit coin d’parapluie
| A little corner of an umbrella
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| Contre un coin d’paradis
| Against a corner of paradise
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| Elle avait quelque chos' d’un ange
| She had something of an angel
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| Un p’tit coin d’paradis
| A little corner of paradise
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| Contre un coin d’parapluie
| Against a corner of an umbrella
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| Je n’perdais pas au chang', pardi!
| I didn't lose at chang', of course!
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| Chemin faisant, que ce fut tendre
| Along the way, it was tender
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| D’ouare deux le chant joli
| D'ouare deux le chant jolie
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| Que l’eau du ciel faisait entendre
| That the water of the sky made hear
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| Sur le toit de mon parapluie!
| On the roof of my umbrella!
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| J’aurais voulu, comme au dluge
| I would have liked, like at the dluge
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| Voir sans arrt tomber la pluie
| Watch the rain keep falling
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| Pour la garder, sous mon refuge
| To keep her, under my refuge
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| Quarante jours, quarante nuits
| Forty days, forty nights
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| Mais btement, mme en orage
| But foolishly, even in a storm
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| Les routes vont vers des pays
| Roads go to countries
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| Bientt le sien fit un barrage
| Soon his made a barrage
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| l’horizon de ma folie!
| the horizon of my madness!
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| Il a fallu qu’elle me quitte
| She had to leave me
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| Aprs m’avoir dit grand merci
| After saying thank you
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| Et je l’ai vu', toute petite
| And I saw her, very small
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| Partir gaiement vers mon oubli | Go cheerfully towards my oblivion |