It has been a long time
Since I saw my friend Bismarck
Who was mahout in a circus
And who translated Petrarch into Turkish in Dunkirk
All my friends told me
"Where is your friend Bismarck
Who was mahout in a circus
And who translated Petrarch into Turkish in Dunkirk? "
I looked for him in Guatemala, in Nicaragua
In the Solomon Islands and in Aveyron
In Puerto Rico
In Campo-Formio
And then at a man from Zanzibar
Whose name is Milton Édouard
I looked for him in Marcq-en-Bareuil
At the Auteuil gate
In Gallipoli, in the United States
I could never know
Where he was
And yet I have really
Well searched for him
So I gave up on finding my friend Bismarck
Who was mahout in a circus
And who translated Petrarch into Turkish in Dunkirk
It's when I got home
That I learned that my friend Bismarck
Hadn't moved from his circus
And was still translating Petrarch in Dunkirk
I had been for nothing in Guatemala
In Nicaragua
In the Solomon Islands
And in the Aveyron
In Puerto Rico
In Campo-Formio
And then at a man from Zanzibar
Whose name is Milton Édouard
I had been for nothing in Marcq-en-Bareuil
At the Auteuil gate
In Gallipoli, in the United States
So I decided to go find my friend
Ouimanagadouboudé
Who is a sorcerer among the hunters on foot
Between Tananarive and Bagnolet