Un Canadien Errant

Song: Leonard Cohen

 A Wandering Canadian

Translation:  Kenno
Un Canadien Errant
Banni de ses foyers
Parcourait en pleurant
Des pays etrangers.
Parcourait en pleurant
Des pays etrangers.

Un jour, triste et pensif,
Assis au bord des flots,
Au courant fugitif
Il adressa ces mots:
Au courant fugitif
Il adressa ces mots:

"Si tu vois mon pays,
Mon pays malheureux,
Va dire a mes amis
Que je me souviens d'eux.
Va dire a mes amis
Que je me souviens d'eux.

O jours si pleins d'appas,
Vous etes disparus...
Et ma patrie, helas!
Je ne la verrai plus.
Et ma patrie, helas!
Je ne la verrai plus."

 

 A wandering Canadian
Banished from his home
Looked around while crying
In foreign countries.
Looked around while crying
In foreign countries.

One day, sad and pensive,
Seated very close to the stream,
He spoke these words to the fugitve current.
He spoke these words to the fugitive current:

"If you see my country,
My unhappy country,
Go say to my friends
That I remember them.
Go say to my friends
That I remember them.

Oh days so full of seductive charms,
You are extinct...
And my homeland, alas!
I won't see it anymore.
And my homeland, alas!
I won't see it anymore."
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