Le jardin extraordinaire [English translation]

It's an extraordinary garden

There are ducks that speak english

I give them bread, they shake their behinds

Telling me "Thank you very much Mister Trenet"

You can also see statues

That keep quiet all day long, they say

But I know that as soon as the night comes

They go dancing on the grass

Dad, it's an extraordinary garden

There are birds that run a buffet

They sell grain, small pieces of Gruyere

Among their clients, there's the mayor and the sous-préfet

I needed to find, in this big, gloomy city

Where tourists are bored in the back of the bus

I needed to find a place for a walk

I admit, that Saturday, I entered there by chance

In, in, in

An extraordinary garden

Far from the black buildings and from the zebra crossings

There was a dancing ball given by primroses

In a verdant corner, two little frogs were singing

A song to say hello to the moon

As soon as she appeared, all rosy with emotion

I believe they sang the brown waltz

An old owl told me: "So distinguished!"

Mom, in this extraordinary garden

I suddenly saw the most beautiful girl passing by

She approached me and said to me without manners

I like you very much, I like men with stars in their eyes!

I needed to find, in this big perverse city

A nice love affair, a little twenty-year-old flirt

That would make me forget that love is a business

In the city's pubs:

Yes but, yes but not in ...

In, in, in

My extraordinary garden

An angel of the Weird, a policeman told us

Stretch out on the green heather

I'll play the lute for you while you're together

This policeman was a great poet

But we preferred, Artemise and I

The softness of a secret place

That she made me discover deep in the woods

For those who want to know where this garden is

It is, you see, at the heart of my song

I fly there sometimes when sadness hurts me

All it takes is a little imagination

All it takes is a little imagination

All it takes is a little imagination!