La famille Dupanard [English translation]

The Dupanard tribe

The parents, the kids

Live in a shack

In Vitry

In Vitry-sur-Seine

Oh! What luck!

Old man Dupanard

Once made his bacon

When he got out of the glasshouse

To Vitry

To Vitry-sur-Seine

Oh! What a windfall!

Old lady Dupanard

Sorted herself out in the end

She drank Pernod

At Vitry

At Vitry-sur-Seine

Oh! What breath!

Young Louis Dupanard

Usually sleeps at the copshop

Then he packs his kit

In Vitry

In Vitry-sur-Seine

Oh! What a fright!

Young Louison Dupanard

Has duck feet

And marmoset hair

At Vitry

At Vitry-sur-Seine

Oh! What a diva!

In the medical museum

There’s still one left

He hasn’t made his bed

In Vitry

In Vitry-sur-Seine

Oh! What a hardship!

Into the family vault

They’ll go, sure as fate

That’s death, that’s life

At Vitry

At Vitry-sur-Seine

Oh! What a pile!

Then they’ll be forgotten

Sooner or later, that’s how it goes

In Peking, in Paris

In Vitry

In Vitry-sur-Seine

Sing it again!