Grain de Mil
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Grain de Mil is a folk song from the Acadian region of North America.
I recorded it and then added an original descant in English.

The traditional lyrics of Grain de Mil (translated from French) are:

Behind my father’s house, there is a sweet apple tree
The three daughters of a prince are asleep underneath
I have some millet seed, I have a bit of straw
I have orange trees, I have trill, I have tricolis
I have matches and I have pineapples
Stones, ah! blooming, some blooming laurels
I have zi, I have zinnezi, I have zinnezinne and zinnezo
I have beautiful, I have beautiful, I have beautiful birds

The English lyrics are sort of my own version:

In the garden of my father's house, under the apple tree
In the garden of my father's house, a peddler said to me
Will you come with me and be my love
Will you let fall one white linen glove
I will send you oscine songs from branches high above
I have one little shell like a baby's thumbnail
one fragile paper flower
one little note on a napkin "meet me by the flagpole"
one wind-up Wonderful World
one plum that was only a plum
the juice of an apple, an orange, a carrot
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