WHEN I WAS A BACHELOR

Quand j’étais un garçon,

I lived by myself,

Et toute la viande et le fromage

I put upon a shelf.

Les rats et les souris

Did lead me such a life,

Je m’en allai à Londres

To get myself a wife.

Les rues étant grandes,

And the lanes being narrow,

Je dus amener mon épouse,

In a wheel-barrow.

La brouette se cassa,

My wife got a fall,

A terre fut la brouette,

Little wife and all.