Adieu mon pays [English translation]

I left my country, I left my house

My life, my sad(=pitiful) life goes on an on without reason

I left my sun, I left my blue sea

Their memories stir, long after my (having said) farewell

Sun, the sun of my lost country

White cities that I loved, girls that I knew then (that I used to know)

I left a girlfriend, I still see her eyes

Her eyes wet with rain, with the rain of (saying) goodbye

I see her smile again, so close to my face

It made the evenings of my village glorious

But, from the side (the rail?) of the ship, that took me away from the quay

A chain in the water made a great cracking noise (claqué: like the sound of a whip)

For a long time I looked at her blue, searching (? 'fouillent' may be a mistake) eyes

The sea had drowned them in the current and, and, and,