Les feuilles mortes [English translation]

Horseback riding on dad, straddling

You watch the first dead leaves fall

Far from stress, that make our forehead wrinkle

When our innocence puts the key under the door

Since you got here did you know my child laugh

Is ringing again somewhere deep in me

Like an old friend, that I was no longer waiting for

Who comes back to party under my roof

In my head cheering, just like the New Year

A rocking chair, my childhood memories

Hello grandma, Happy New Year big nose

So many emotions since you were born

You know more we grow old, and it is sad

Wonder loses its feathers on the way

But you are a spark, who rekindles my fires

And everything within me that had long gone out

My bursts of laughter in the piles of dead leaves

Merbromin on my little knees

The school where i used my bottom

Slush puppie and the raspberry candies at one cent

All these images, a bit damaged

By my shipwrecks and the weight of the years

Relive under my hat, in the head of dad

Just like the maple syrup time after a long winter

if one day your carefree laugh of a child

Is carried away by tears

By death, or the I should have

Make you for a time lose your illusions

Remember that everything passes by so fast in life

The good and the bad that the wind brings us

And within each of us, hides well buried

Our bursts of laughter in the dead leaves