Un Canadien Errant [A wandering Canadian,]
  Banni de ses foyers, [banned from his hearths,]
  Parcourait en pleurant [travelled while crying]
  Des pays etrangers. [in foreign lands.]
  Parcourait en pleurant [travelled while crying]
  Des pays etrangers. [in foreign lands.]
  Un jour, triste et pensif, [One day, sad and pensive,]
  Assis au bord des flots, [sitting by the flowing waters,]
  Au courant fugitif [to the fleeing current]
  Il adressa ces mots: [he addressed these words:]
  Au courant fugitif [to the fleeing current]
  Il adressa ces mots: [he addressed these words:]
  
  "Si tu vois mon pays, [If you see my country,]
  Mon pays malheureux, [my unhappy country,]
  Va dire a mes amis [go tell my friends]
  Que je me souviens d'eux. [that I remember them.]
  Va dire a mes amis [go tell my friends]
  Que je me souviens d'eux. [that I remember them.]
  
  O jours si pleins d'appas, [O days so full of charms,]
  Vous etes disparus... [you have vanished...]
  Et ma patrie, helas! [And my native land, alas!]
  Je ne la verrai plus. [I will see it no more.]
  Et ma patrie, helas! [And my native land, alas!]
  Je ne la verrai plus. [I will see it no more. ]