Translation:Un Canadien errant

Original French lyrics:
 * Un Canadien errant,
 * Banni de ses foyers,
 * Parcourait en pleurant
 * Des pays étrangers.


 * Un jour, triste et pensif,
 * Assis au bord des flots,
 * Au courant fugitif
 * Il adressa ces mots


 * "Si tu vois mon pays,
 * Mon pays malheureux,
 * Va, dis à mes amis
 * Que je me souviens d'eux.


 * "O jours si pleins d'appas
 * Vous êtes disparus,
 * Et ma patrie, hélas!
 * Je ne la verrai plus!


 * "Non, mais en expirant,
 * O mon cher Canada!
 * Mon regard languissant
 * Vers toi se portera . . ."

English Translation:
 * An errant ‘Canadien’
 * Banished from his homeland
 * Weeping, he travels on
 * Wandering through foreign lands


 * One sad and pensive day
 * Seated on the river’s bank
 * To the evasive current,
 * Did he address these words:


 * “If you should see my home
 * My sad unhappy land
 * Go, say to all my friends
 * That I remember them


 * "O days once so full of charm
 * You are all gone away
 * And my homeland, alas!
 * I'll not see her again


 * "No, but with my last breath
 * O my dear Canada!
 * My languid glance toward home
 * Shall carry me to you"