Translation of the song La cane de Jeanne artist Georges Brassens
La cane de Jeanne
Jeanne's duck
La cane
Jeanne's
de Jeanne
duck
est morte au gui l’an neuf...
died when new year was celebrated...
Elle avait fait, la veille,
She had laid, the night before,
Merveille !
miraculously!
un œuf.
an egg.
La cane
Jeanne's
de Jeanne
duck
est morte d’avoir fait,
died through having,
Du moins on le présume,
at least we presume,
un rhume,
a bad
mauvais !
cold!
La cane
Jeanne's
de Jeanne
duck
est morte sur son œuf,
died on her egg,
et dans son beau costume
and in her lovely costume
de plumes,
of quite new
tout neuf !
feathers!
La cane
As Jeanne's
de Jeanne
duck
ne laissant pas de veuf,
left no widower,
c’est nous autres qui eûmes
it was the rest of us who got
les plumes,
the feathers,
et l’ œuf.
and the egg.
Tous, toutes,
All us men, and women,
sans doute,
no doubt,
garderons longtemps le
will retain for a long time the
souvenir de la cane
memory of Jeanne's
de Jeanne
duck
Morbleu !
by gum!