Songs of the Voyageurs - Lyrics
French Lyrics with English Translations
The same verses are used for:
En
Roulant Ma Boule
(My rolling ball.)
Chorus
En roulant, ma boule roulant
En roulant ma boule.
En roulant, ma boule roulant
En roulant ma boule.
Derrièr' chez nous y a-t-un étang
En roulant ma boule.
Derrièr' chez nous y a-t-un étang
En roulant ma boule.
Trois beaux canards s'en vont baignant
Rouli, roulant, ma boule roulant.
En roulant, ma boule roulant
En roulant ma boule.
Chorus
Trois beaux canards s'en vont baignant
En roulant ma boule.
English translation:
There's a pond behind our house where three pretty ducks bathe. The king's son, who is hunting with a big silver gun, aims for the black duck but kills the white one. O, son of the king, you are wicked to have killed my white duck. From beneath his wing he is losing his blood. From his eyes pour diamonds and from his beak, gold and silver. All his feathers are blowing away in the wind. Three ladies pick them up to make a bed for all the passerby.
Chorus:
Blow, good wind, my sweetheart is calling me,
Blow, good wind, my sweetheart is
awaiting me.
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