La gadoue [English translation]

We should have rubber boots

To wade through the slush, the slush...

One by one , the drops of water

Trickle down our backs

We're wading through the slush, the slush...

Let's live a little

Under the grey-blue sky,

On love and rain-water

Then let's start the wipers

And go back to Paris

It won't be any different from here

We'll still need our umbrellas

We'll be back in the slush, the slush...

It's horrible weather,

Luckily you have your rain-coat,

But that doesn't prevent the slush, the slush...

We had to come here

To play the frozen lovers

And wade through the slush, the slush...

Let's live a little

Under the grey-blue sky,

On love and rain-water

Then let's start the wipers

And go back to Paris

Next year we'll go

To a country where it's fine

And we'll forget the slush, the slush...

• Artist:Petula Clark