Sacré Charlemagne [English translation]
Sacré Charlemagne [English translation]
Who is it who had the crazy idea
to invent school?
Who had this idea
to invent school out of the blue?
It's this naughty Charlemagne.
Naughty Charlemagne
left us free to live
only on thursdays1 and sundays
He left us free to live
only on thursadys and sundays
It's this naughty Charlemagne
Naughty Charlemagne
This son of Pépin le Bref
is causing us a lot of trouble,
and we hold a hundred grudges
against, against, against him.
Who is it who had the crazy idea
to invent school?
Who had this idea
to invent school out of the blue?
It's this naughty Charlemagne.
Naughty Charlemagne
Past participle2
4 and 4 make 8
French and
Math lessons.
That's so much work, work.
Naughty naughty naughty naughty
naughty Charlemagne
He should rather have stroked
his flourishing beard3 for a while longer
He should rather have stroked
his flourishing beard for a while longer
Oh oh naughty Charlemagne
Naughty Charlemagne
Instead of bothering us
with geography
Instead of bothering us
with geography
Oh oh naughty Charlemagne
Naughty Charlemagne
He would have better busied himself
with battles and hunting;
we would not be forced then
to go to school every day
You have to learn maths
and do lots of dictations
You have to learn maths
and do lots of dictations
Oh oh naughty Charlemagne
Naughty Charlemagne
Past participle
Past participle
4 and 4 make 8
4 and 4 make 8
French lesson
French lesson
Math lesson
Math lesson
That's so much work, work.
Naughty naughty naughty naughty
naughty Charlemagne
For if not for him, in our life
there would be only thursdays
For if not for him, in our life
there would be only thursdays
For if not for him, in our life
there would be only thursdays
Oh oh naughty Charlemagne
Oh oh naughty Charlemagne
Oh oh naughty Charlemagne
Oh oh naughty Charlemagne
1. was a no-school day in the 60' in France2. the rules according to which French past participle varies are especially troublesome to learn3. Charlemagne was sometimes called "the emperor with a flourishing beard"
- Artist:France Gall