Si j'étais un charpentier [English translation]

If I were a carpenter

and your name were Mary

would you want to marry me

and bear our child?

My house would not be

the palace of a great king.

I would have built it for you

alone with my own hands.

Take the love I offer you.

You have to be strong

When our son becomes a man

he'll have much to do.

If I were a carpenter

and your name were Mary

my hands would be dry and hard

and yours would be so fragile

Men and their wrath

would come at night to kill.

We would flee into the desert

to hide the newborn.

If I were a carpenter

and your name were Mary

would you want to marry me

and start all over again?

Would you want to marry me

and start all over again?