Sous les palétuviers [English translation]

[Pedro]:

Love, that forbidden fruit

Is thus still unknown to you?

Ah! Maybe that's it,

Pretty little bud of April?

[Honorine]:

No! I've never seen it,

Never seen or known it,

But my ingenuous heart

Wants to make up, you see,

For all the lost time!

[Pedro]:

Ah! For loving, there's nothing like

The tall mangroves,

Dear little thing!

[Honorine]:

Ah! If the mangroves,

Make you fidget so much

I really want to try. . .

{Refrain}:

[Pedro]:

Ah! Come under the ma. . .

[Honorine]:

I'm coming from this step*,

But I'll go there step by step!

[Pedro]:

Ah! Do you want to follow me?. . .

[Honorine]:

I'm following you, not stubborn,

Under the tall mangro. . .

[Pedro]

Come unflinchingly,

Let's go chirp

Under the mangroves

[Honorine]:

Ah yes! Under the mama mama

Under the ma, the gro,

Under the mangroves. . .

[Pedro]:

Ah! I want you under the ma,

I want you under the gro,

The pink mangroves. . .

[Honorine][Pedro]:

Let's love each other under the ma,

Take me under the gro,

Let's love each other under the sink!**. . .

{End of refrain}

[Pedro]:

Ah! Your heart still seems to me

To hesitate, dear treasure,

But I want to dare

For a little, very little kiss!

[Honorine]:

A dizzy spell dazzled me,

A kiss, that's exquisite!

But as soon as he's taken it

I'll be for him

An object of contempt!

[Pedro]:

No, contempt, I pray you

Isn't in my price,

Because I'm caught, cutie!

[Honorine]:

Ah! My heart is at bay,

You can take, O my king,

My body deep in the woods. . .

{Refrain}

If I understand well

You want me, my pet,

Under the tall ma. . .

You come!. . .

{Refrain}

• Artist:Pauline Carton