Les Rats d’Swompe
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“Robert Charlebois: 1994 Lifetime Artistic Achievement (Popular Music).” Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, https://ggpaa.ca/award-recipients/new-document/charlebois-robert.aspx
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“Lindberg (1968)”
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M'en revenant de la joli' Rochelle (bis) Riding along the road to Rochelle City, (bis) J'ai rencontré trois joli's desmoiselles I met three girls, and all of them were pretty Refrain: C’est l’aviron qui nous mène qui nous mène, Pull on the oars as we glide along together, C’est l’aviron qui nous mène en haut. Pull on the oars as we glide along. J’ai point choisi, mais j’ai pris la plus belle, (bis) By chance I chose the one who was the beauty, (bis) J’l’y fis monter derrièr’ moi sur ma selle… Lifted her up so she could ride beside me. (Refrain) J’y fis cent lieues sans parler avec elle, (bis) With never a word we rode along together, (bis) Au bout d’cent lieues ell’ me demandait à boire. After a while, she said, “I’d like a drink, sir.” (Refrain) Je l’ai menée auprès d’une fontaine, (bis) Quickly I found a spring from out the mountain, (bis) Quand ell’ fut là, elle ne voulut point boire. But she’d not drink the water from the fountain. (Refrain) Je l’ai r’menée au logis de son père, (bis) On then we went to find her home and father, (bis) Quand ell’ fut là, elle buvait à plein verre… When we got there, she drank… but not of water. (Refrain) À la santé d’ses sœurs et frères, (bis) Many a toast she drank to her dear mother, (bis) À la santé d’celui que son cœur aime… Turning to me, she toasted her own lover. (Refrain)
English translation from the Minnesota Heritage Songbook, compiled and edited by Robert B. Waltz.
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Lead singer of the band Octobre.
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