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Je m' suis fait tout p'tit devant un' poupée
Qui ferm' les yeux quand on la couche
Je m' suis fait tout p'tit devant un' poupée
Qui fait Maman quand on la touche.

J'était dur à cuire ell' m'a converti
La fine mouche
Et je suis tombé tout chaud, tout rôti
Contre sa bouche
Qui a des dents de lait quand elle sourit
Quand elle chante
Et des dents de loup, quand elle est furie
Qu'elle est méchante.

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Je subis sa loi, je file tout doux
Sous son empire
Bien qu'ell' soit jalouse au-delà de tout
Et même pire
Un’ jolie pervench’ qui m’avait paru
Plus joli’ qu’elle
Un' jolie pervench' un jour en mourut
A coup d'ombrelle.

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Tous les somnambules, tous les mages m'ont
Dit sans malice
Qu'en ses bras en croix, je subirais mon
Dernier supplice
Il en est de pir's li en est d' meilleur's
Mais à tout prendre
Qu'on se pende ici, qu'on se pende ailleurs
S'il faut se pendre.

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I've cut myself down to size for a doll
Who shuts her eyes when you lay her down.
I've made myself very small for a doll
Who says 'Mama' when you touch her.

I was hard-boiled, but she changed all that
The crafty hussy,
And I just fell all warm and tenderly roasted
Against her mouth
Which has lovely white milk teeth,
When she sings,
And wolf's teeth when she's in a fury,
When she's really mad.

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I submit to her laws, I just go along
Under her sway,
Although she's jealous like crazy
And even worse than that.
One pretty little flower, just because it seemed to me
To be prettier than her,
One pretty little periwinkle one day died
Struck dead by her sunshade.

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All the sleepwalkers and all the wise men have told me
Without any malice,
That clasped in her arms folded over me like a cross,
I'll meet my last moment.
There are worse than this and there are better,
But taking all in all,
It doesn't matter much whether you hang yourself here or somewhere else,
If you're going to hang yourself anyway.

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