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Le pélican → English translation
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Original lyrics
Le pélican
Le capitaine Jonathan,
Étant âgé de dix-huit ans,
Capture un jour un pélican
Dans une île d'Extrême-Orient.
Le pélican de Jonathan,
Au matin pond un œuf tout blanc
Et il en sort un pélican
Lui ressemblant étonnamment.
Et ce deuxième pélican
Pond, à son tour, un œuf tout blanc
D'où sort, inévitablement,
Un autre qui en fait autant.
Cela peut durer pendant très longtemps
Si l'on ne fait pas d'omelette avant.
Submitted by Valeriu Raut on 2017-02-02
Translation
The Pelican
Captain Jonathan
Being eighteen years old
Captures a pelican one day
In a Far-Eastern island.
Jonathan's pelican
lays an all-white egg
from which emerges a pelican
Which looks just like the first.
And this second pelican
Also lays an all-white egg
from which emerges, inevitably
Another, who does the same.
This can last a very long time
Unless we make an omelet.
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Submitted by shookik on 2017-02-02
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