Un Canadien Errant - 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."