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Tis the Wind, the Fickle Wind…, Folksong

28 Saturday Jan 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Canada

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French folksong, T.C. Blegen, Université de Moncton's Male Choir, voyageurs

Duck

I am sending you the words to another voyageur song. This song is also entitled: Derrière chez nous.

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C’est le vent frivolant (It is the Frivolous Wind)

Chorus or refrain
C’est le vent, c’est le vent frivolant. (2)
 
1. Derrière chez nous y-a-t’un étang
C’est le vent, c’est le vent frivolant. (2: repeat the first two lines)
Trois beaux canards s’en vont baignant,
C’est le vent, qui vole, qui frivole. 
Refrain
 
2.  Trois beaux canards s’en vont baignant,
C’est le vent, c’est le vent frivolant. (2: repeat the first two lines) 
Le fils du roi s’en va chassant,
C’est le vent, qui vole, qui frivole.
Refrain
 
3.  Visa le noir, tua le blanc,
C’est le vent, c’est le vent frivolant. (2: repeat the first two lines)
Ô fils du roi tu es méchant,
C’est le vent, qui vole, qui frivole.
Refrain
 
4.  D’avoir tué mon canard blanc,
C’est le vent, c’est le vent frivolant. (2: repeat the first two lines)
Par dessous l’aile il perd son sang,
C’est le vent, qui vole, qui frivole.
Refrain
 
5.  Toutes ses plumes s’en vont au vent,
C’est le vent, c’et le vent frivolant. (2: repeat the first two lines)
Trois dames s’en vont les remassant,
C’est le vent, qui vole, qui frivole.
Refrain 
 

* * *

  
This song is a ballad.  Here is what it means: 
 
1. Behind our place, there is a pond, (Derrière chez nous, il y a un étang,) 
Three beautiful ducks are bathing, (Trois beaux canards s’en vont baignant,)
Tis the wind a-blowing, frivolous.
Refrain 
 
2. Three beautiful ducks are bathing, (Trois beaux canards s’en vont baignant,)
The king’s son is going hunting, (le fils du roi s’en va chassant,).
Tis the wind a-blowing, frivolous. 
Refrain
 
3. Aimed for the black one, killed the white, (Visa le noir, tua le blanc,)
Oh you, the kind’s son, you are mean, (Ô, fils du roi, tu es méchant,)
Tis the wind…
Refrain
 
4. To have killed my white duck, (To have killed my white duck,)
Blood is pouring from under his wing, (Par-dessous l’aile il perd son sang,)
Tis the wind…
Refrain
 
5. The wind is blowing all his feathers away, (Toutes ses plumes s’en vont au vent,) 
Three ladies are picking them up, (Trois dames s’en vont les ramassant,)
Tis the wind…
Refrain
 

03 C’est le vent frivolant

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