Three French Children’s Songs

Three French children’s songs brought to you by …

Petit Prince!

Click here to hear him sing:  Petit Prince Petit Poisson

(and please don’t kill me, but you have to click the link a second time when it shows the attachment page in order to hear it, and then you have to back-click twice to get back to the post – I’m sooooory – so not tech savvy … and while we’re at it, I never look at spam but I did today, and out of the ten spam comments I got, THREE were from people who have commented before – what’s going on? So if you don’t see your comment, shoot me a mail.  I probably did not edit it out, but it’s lost in spamland. okay, back to our regularly scheduled programming …)

Les petits poissons, dans l’eau 
nagent, nagent, nagent, nagent, nagent,

Les petits poissons, dans l’eau 
nagent aussi bien que les gros 
Les petits, les gros nagent comme il faut,

Les gros, les petits nagent bien aussi.

The little fish in water – swim, swim, swim, swim, swim,

The little fish in water – you should swim as well as the big ones.

The little ones, the big ones –  swim as well as you should

The big ones, the little ones – swim well too.

Loses something in the translation, don’t you think?

Young Knight!

Click here to hear: Young Knight – Green Mouse

Une souris verte
Qui courait dans l’herbe
Je l’attrape par la queue,
Je la montre à ces messieurs
Ces messieurs me disent :
Trempez-la dans l’huile,
Trempez-la dans l’eau,
Ça fera un escargot
Tout chaud.
Je la mets dans un tiroir,
Ell’ me dit :”Il fait trop noir”
Je la mets dans mon chapeau,
Ell’ me dit :” Il fait trop chaud”
Je la mets dans ma culotte,
Elle me fait trois petites crottes

A green mouse runs in the grass

I catch it by the tail and I show it to these guys.

These misters tell me “Soak it in oil, soak it in water – it will become a snail, all nice and warm.”

I put it in my drawer, it says it’s too dark.

I put it in my hat, it says it’s too hot

I put it in my underwear and it does three little poops

(lyrics added by Young Knight – I put it in a saucepan and it does rock-n-roll).

This, now, loses nothing in the translation as it’s quite ridiculous in French too.

Young Lady!

Click here to hear: A Young Lady’s Colors

Dans le jardin, ciel bleu arbre vert

les enfants jouent, ballon rouge, caillou blanc

Et au soleil pomme jaune, l’oiseau noir

danse une abeille

ciel bleu arbre vert

ballon rouge, caillou blanc

ciel bleu arbre vert

ballon rouge, caillou blanc

In the garden – blue sky, green tree

The children play – red ball, white stone

And in the sun – yellow apple, black bird

dances a bee –

blue sky, green tree

red ball, white stone

blue sky, green tree

red ball, white stone

Gros bisous (big kisses) from us to you!

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