Ballade de Melody Nelson [English translation]

Here is the story

Of Melody Nelson

Whom, apart from me, no one

Ever hugged on their body.

True, though it stuns

One, undoubtedly.

Oh, love, she had some,

Poor Melody Nelson,

Oh yes, of love, she had tons

But fate halted her figures:

Fourteen autumns

Fifteen summers.

An animal, so coy,

This Melody Nelson,

An adorable tom-boy,

And such a delicious child

I only knew-d

A little while !

Oh, my Melody

My Melody Nelson

You, lovely little moron,

You were the sine qua non

Condition

For my Reason.