Quand j'étions chez mon père (L'apprenti pastouriau)

When I was at my dad's, a shepherd apprentice,
He put me in the field, to watch the flock.

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Flock, flock, I hardly had any.
Flock, flock, I barely had a few.

I hardly had any; I only had three lambs
And the wolf from the plains ate the best one.

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He was so greedy; left me just the skin,
Left me just the tail, to put on my hat.

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But from the bones of the beast, he made me a flute
To play at the party, by the light of the fire.

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To make the village dance, under the big elm tree
And the young and the old, with their feet in the mud.