Dans les prisons de Nantes [English translation]

In the prisons of Nantes

Was a prisoner

No one came to see him

But the gaoler's daughter

One day he asked her

What are they saying about me?

In the town they say

That you are going to be hanged

Since they will hang me

Untie my feet

The girl was young

She untied his feet

The lively prisoner

Jumped into the Loire

Once he had made it to the shore

He began to sing

I sing for all the beauties

But especially the daughter of the gaoler

And if I return to Nantes

Yea, I will marry her

In the prisons of Nantes

There was a prisoner