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Hillsboro Community Youth Choir Winter 2013 Concert
February 7th, 2014 | 
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The Hillsboro Community Youth Choir presented their winter concert “Northern Lights – Songs from the Lands of the Aurora” on December 15, 2013. It included songs in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, and French, including this one by the Encore Choir Boys: “Dans Les Chantiers” (The Winter Camp), a French Canadian lumberjack song. It tells the story of a young man’s miserable winter in the “chantiers” (shanties). When he doesn’t get paid, he vows never again to return to the camps. A bad online translation (I’ll try to find a better one):
| Here winter arrivesThe rivers are frozen
It’s time to go to the woods Eat lard and bits of peas In the yards we will be wintering
Poor traveler! you have to misery Often you sleep on the floor In the rain, bad weather At the rigor of all time
When you arrive in Quebec Often you make a big beak You’ll see your bourgeois That is sitting there at his desk
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I would like to be paidFor the time that I have given
the bourgeois is in bankruptcy And sent back to you eat crusts
When you return to your father Also to review your mother The snowman is at the door And the good wife makes the diner
“Ah! Hello! So, my dear child We have you brought ben the money?”
What the hell the yards Never of my life to return. |
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