Un Canadien Errant - Original Lyrics

Original Lyrics






Original French lyrics:

Un Canadien errant,
Banni de ses foyers,
Parcourait en pleurant
Des pays étrangers.
Un jour, triste et pensif,
Assis au bord des flots,
Au courant fugitif
Il adressa ces mots:
"Si tu vois mon pays,
Mon pays malheureux,
Va, dis à mes amis
Que je me souviens d'eux.
"Ô jours si pleins d'appas
Vous êtes disparus,
Et ma patrie, hélas!
Je ne la verrai plus!
"Non, mais en expirant,
Ô mon cher Canada!
Mon regard languissant
Vers toi se portera..."

Literal English Translation:

A wandering Canadian,
Banished from his hearths,
Traveled, weeping, through
foreign countries.
One day, sad and pensive,
Sitting at the waters' edge,
To the rushing current,
He said these words:
“If you see my country,
My unhappy country,
Go tell my friends
That I remember them.
"O days so full of charm
You have disappeared,
And my country, alas!
I will never again see it!
"No, but while dying,
O my dear Canada!
My longing look
will go toward you."

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