Le roi en pyjama [English translation]

You left me with a King cake

It was for three, I didn't touch it

I put on the crown, moaning

Because I was the only person alive

Able to find the magic charm1

Given that you'd just left me

I'm a king

A king in pyjamas

Who got lost at home

The ghosts were dancing and making fun of me

Thank you for having thought, in your way, of me

My paper crown, I kept it on all day

It's easy to be happy with very little when you have nothing left

Then you telephoned, we nearly laughed2

As you hadn't completely gone

I'm a king

A king in pyjamas

Who got lost at home

Between the bedroom and the dining room

On the stairs, lost

What am I the king of, if not a Galilee that I'm going to have to invent

Between the bedroom and the dining room

I'm a king in pyjamas

All my kingdom for a King cake.

1. In France, a charm is hidden in the Galette des Rois. The person to find it is king for the day and wears a paper crown.2. I'm assuming this is "we" as in him and the ghosts, but it could be him and the person on the phone. I was tempted to translate it very literally as "one", which would fit with him being a king, but that would be quite different from the original.