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Venez fillettes et garçons! Venez tous, garçons et fillettes! Nous répondrons par nos chansons À la chanson des alouettes! Accourez de près et de loin, On a [fauché]1 l'herbe fleurie; Que partout les meules de foin S'amoncèlent dans la prairie! Comme les bras sont pleins d'ardeur! Comme les coeurs sont à la joie! Sentez-vous quelle douce odeur La plaine humide nous envoie? Dans les sentiers, dans les sillons, Ramassez bien chaque brin d'herbe! Du soleil les ardents rayons Mettent de l'or dans chaque gerbe. Et ce soir, avec des chansons, Tout autour d'une meule blonde, Les fillettes et les garçons S'assembleront pour une ronde!
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Come, little girls and boys, come, all the little girls and boys. Our songs will echo the song of the lark. Hurry along from near and far. They have cut the flowering grass. There are haystacks everywhere in the fields. In the paths, in the furrows, gather every blade of grass. The sun's hot rays put gold in each tuft! How eager the arms, how joyful the hearts! Do you smell the sweet odour rising to us from the damp plain? And tonight the little girls and boys will dance and sing around a haystack!
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This text was added to the website: 2004-10-04
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