Un Canadien Errant

French-Canadian folk song.
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Capo 1st
G Em
Un Canadien errant, C G
Banni de ses foyers,
G Em
Parcourait en pleurant
Em C G
Des pays étrangers.

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

G Em
Na na
D
Na...

"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 . . ."

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• french
• canadian
• quebecois
• folk
• song
• guitar

[amonster]

@Shmoe101 Sorry for disappointing you! I wasn't very good at the guitar when I recorded this. Now I am slightly less bad.

[7080hutchison]

You sound like a reasonable guy, and I do have a deep respect for franco Quebecers and french Canadians in general.

After all, you guys were the people to call themselves Canadian, to call this land Canada, to choose the beaver and the maple leaf as our national emblem and even wrote Oh Canada.

I would go as far to say that the whole concept of Canada was a french idea and not an english one. I dont think enough anglos know that.

Anyway, for what its worth, you have my respect.

go habs go!

[stina20a]

I must agree with you amonster. I am from Ontario myself yet am still able to appreciate the history behind the song as well as its beauty, I am trying to become fluent in French and am only in the beginning stages. Je vais apprendre le français!

Anyways - good performance.

[indiantribal]

real nice version. thankyou.

does anyone of you nice folk, know what guitar chords hes strummin?

thanks and peace,

ash

[cfb1414]

@Grungadin ok calm yourself maybe we're the most corrupt province in Canada, but the fact is that the half of quebecers don't want to be in Canada and the other half want so there's conflict everywhere in the province... There's also the fact that when Canada has problems they put all their shit in Québec... Quebec has nothing to say about immigrants so Canada's government send many english speakers immigrants in Quebec and it doesn't work here, this is only an exemple... the major part of

[2emma1]

Tu joue bien et ton accent est assez adorable, je dois dire :P

J'adore cette chanson et je trouve ca bien que des canadiens anglais l'aiment aussi.

[firesteelranger]

@Grungadin

Your opinion is best kept to yourself. ABout the only value such a comment has is as a bad example. There are enough of those. Your services are no longer required. Bon soir.

[douce5l]

Bonjour,

J'adire vraiment la version que vous avez faites de cette chanson que j'aime particulièrement. J suis très flattée aussi qu'un anglais aime cette chanson, ça me fait vraiment plaisir.

Merci beaucoup

[Grungadin]

@7080hutchison

Quebec is also a only province fully capable of working, yet still unable to do anything but ask for handouts from the Federal government every fucking year. I know plenty of bad things about Quebec, Canada's most corrupt province as Macleans properly put it.

[isolidsnakei]

hey, tu rock.

franchement la, bravo, j'adore ta version, et ton accent fait juste rendre la chanson encore plus charmante :)

[isolidsnakei]

Hey man, french from quebec here.

and I'm the real thing, I live in the north, where people from big cities like montréal just don't go ;)

this is where the most beautifull nature scenes can be seen.

but anyway trève de plaisanterie!

you did a real good job, seriously!

onward to glory! :D

[Bokc9009]

En passant-je trouve cette chanson devrait servir comme anthem pour tous les canadiens du 21ieme siècle...oublie l'imperialisme du royaume-uni, dans le 21ieme siècle on a rien a faire avec la monarchie com me canadien. To all the independistes or Franco haters, U ARE HATING UR OWN PEOPLE...this song in the 21st century, for me symbolizes a fight not canadien vs canadien, but canadien vs Britain...love your country, aimed votre pays