Jack Monoloy [English translation]

Jack Monoloy loved a White girl

Jack Monoloy was an Indian

He saw her every Sunday

But the parents, knew nothing about this.

All the birches of the Mingan river

All the birches remember it:

Mariouche was pretty

Jack Monoloy was handsome.

"Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack" said the ducks,

The partridges and the teals,

« Monoloy» said the wind

Mariouche is for a White man.

He had written with a hunting knife

His love’s name on a birch.

One day they followed their tracks

They saw them by the water’s edge.

All the birches of the Mingan river

All the birches remember it:

Mariouche was pretty

Jack Monoloy was handsome.

"Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack" said the ducks,

The partridges and the teals

« Monoloy» said the wind

Mariouche is for a White man.

Jack Monoloy is reeling from the pain,

Mariouche was in the convent

And the river flows just barely

Slower than before.

All the birches of the Mingan river

All the birches remember it:

Mariouche was pretty

Jack Monomoy was handsome.

Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack» said the ducks,

The partridges and the teals,

« Monoloy » said the wind

Mariouche is for a White man.

Jack Monoloy -God save his soul,

In full sunlight Sunday morning

In a white canoe from the top of the dam

He jumped to his destiny.

All the birches of the Mingan river

All the birches remember it:

Mariouche was pretty

Jack Monomoy was handsome.

Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack» said the ducks,

The partridges and the teals,

« Monoloy » said the wind

Mariouche is for a White man.

Mariouche is in the village,

Jack Monoloy is at the bottom of the water,

He sees floating clouds

Canoes and logs.

All the birches of the Mingan river

All the birches have memories

And their bark is all black

Since Jack Monoloy kicked the bucket. *

Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack» said the ducks,

The partridges and the teals

« Monoloy» said the wind

Mariouche is for a White man!