Je chante [English translation]

I sing, I sing night and day

Oh, I'm singing on my way

I sing, going from farm to castle

I sing for bread, I sing for water

I spend the night on the forest grass

The flies don't bite me

I am happy, I have everything and I have nothing

And I'm singing on my way

Elves, night divinities

Elves sleep in my bed

The moon is sliding in the wood

Stealthily, to dance, to dance with us

I ring at the countess door today

Nobody, she's out

She just left a little bit of rice for me

Says to me a Chinese valet

I sing, but famine is following me

Tormenting my hunger

Suddenly I fall at the through of a path

I'm swooning while I fall and I'm almost dying

"Police officers, you who are passing on this path

Police officers, I hold my hands out

Have mercy, I'm hungry, I would like to eat

I am so light*... light... "

At the police station, other moustaches² told me

At the police station "Ah! My friend

Is that you the vagrant, the singer?

We're going to shut you up... yes, your time has come"

Oh, string, you saved me from life

String, may you be blessed so

Because, by your help, I gave my spirit back

I hung myself this night... and since it

I sing, I sing night and day

Oh, I'm singing on my way

I haunt farms and castles

A ghost who sings, that's funny

I spend the night on the forest grass

The flies don't bite me

I am happy, fine, I'm not hungry anymore

And I'm singing on my way