Seven Cent Cotton & Forty Cent Meat - Pete Seegertranslation in French
Seven
cent
cotton
and
a
forty
cent
meat
Sept
centimes
de
coton
et
quarante
centimes
de
viande
How
in
the
world
can
a
poor
man
eat?
Comment
un
pauvre
homme
peut-il
manger
?
Flour
up
high
and
cotton
down
low
La
farine
est
haute
et
le
coton
est
bas
How
in
the
world
can
we
raise
the
dough?
Comment
allons-nous
pouvoir
payer
?
Clothes
worn
out,
shoes
run
down
Vêtements
usés,
chaussures
usées
Ol′
slouch
hat
with
a
hole
in
the
crown
Vieux
chapeau
mou
avec
un
trou
dans
la
couronne
Back
nearly
broken
and
fingers
all
sore
Le
dos
presque
cassé
et
les
doigts
endoloris
Cotton
gone
down
to
rise
no
more
Le
coton
n'augmente
plus
Seven
cent
cotton
and
eight
dollar
pants
Sept
centimes
de
coton
et
huit
dollars
de
pantalon
Who
in
the
world
has
got
a
chance?
Qui
a
une
chance
?
We
can't
buy
clothes,
we
can′t
buy
meat
On
ne
peut
pas
acheter
de
vêtements,
on
ne
peut
pas
acheter
de
viande
Too
much
cotton
and
not
enough
to
eat
Trop
de
coton
et
pas
assez
à
manger
Can't
help
each
other,
what'll
we
do?
On
ne
peut
pas
s'entraider,
qu'est-ce
qu'on
va
faire
?
I
can′t
explain
it
so
it′s
up
to
you
Je
ne
peux
pas
l'expliquer,
alors
c'est
à
toi
de
voir
Seven
cent
cotton
and
two
dollar
hose
Sept
centimes
de
coton
et
deux
dollars
de
bas
Guess
we'll
have
to
do
without
any
clothes
Je
suppose
qu'il
va
falloir
faire
sans
vêtements
Seven
cent
cotton
and
a
forty
cent
meat
Sept
centimes
de
coton
et
quarante
centimes
de
viande
How
in
the
world
can
a
poor
man
eat?
Comment
un
pauvre
homme
peut-il
manger
?
Mules
in
the
barn
no
crop
laid
by
Des
mules
dans
la
grange,
pas
de
récolte
Corn
crib′s
empty
and
the
cow's
gone
dry
Le
grenier
à
maïs
est
vide
et
la
vache
est
à
sec
Well
water
low,
nearly
outta
sight
Le
niveau
d'eau
est
bas,
presque
invisible
Can′t
take
a
bath
on
a
Saturday
night
On
ne
peut
pas
prendre
de
bain
le
samedi
soir
No
use
talkin',
any
man
is
beat
Inutile
de
parler,
tout
homme
est
battu
With
seven
cent
cotton
and
a
forty
cent
meat
Avec
sept
centimes
de
coton
et
quarante
centimes
de
viande
Seven
cent
cotton
and
a
forty
cent
meat
Sept
centimes
de
coton
et
quarante
centimes
de
viande
How
in
the
world
can
a
poor
man
eat?
Comment
un
pauvre
homme
peut-il
manger
?
Poor
are
gettin′
poorer
all
around
here
Les
pauvres
deviennent
de
plus
en
plus
pauvres
Kids
comin'
regular
every
year
Les
enfants
arrivent
régulièrement
chaque
année
Fatten
our
harvest,
take
into
town
On
engraisse
notre
récolte,
on
l'emmène
en
ville
All
we
get
is
six
cents
a
pound
On
n'obtient
que
six
centimes
la
livre
Very
next
day
we
have
to
buy
it
back
Le
lendemain,
on
doit
la
racheter
Forty
cents
a
pound
in
a
paper
sack
Quarante
centimes
la
livre
dans
un
sac
en
papier
Rate the translation
1
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
2 Blue Mountain Lake
3 Erie Canal
4 Johnny Gray
5 Sixty Per Cent
6 No Irish Need Apply
7 Pittsburgh Town
8 Raggedy
9 My Children are Seven in Number
10 The Ballad of Barney Graham
11 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
12 The Death of Harry Simms
13 Beans, Bacon, and Gravy
14 Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
15 Mill Mother's Lament
16 Seven Cent Cotton & Forty Cent Meat
17 Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
18 Leatherwing Bat
19 Old Blue
20 Old Joe Clark
21 The Fox
22 The Keeper and The Doe
23 I Know an Old Lady (Who Swallowed a Fly)
24 Cotton Mill Colic
25 I Had a Rooster
26 Whiskey, Rye Whiskey
27 Tex-I-An Boys
28 Mole in the Ground
29 Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
30 He Lies in the American Land
31 Down In the Valley
32 The Golden Vanity
33 Skip to My Lou
34 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
35 John Hardy
36 Ground Hog
37 Sioux Indians
38 Fair Margaret and Sweet William
39 The Titanic Disaster
40 Wabash Cannonball
41 Barbara Allen
42 John Henry
43 The Three Butchers
44 Jesse James
45 Hayseed Like Me
46 St.James Hospital
47 Pretty Polly
48 Roll Down the Line
49 Home On the Range
50 Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
51 If I Had a Hammer
52 Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
53 Blue Tail Fly
54 Yankee Doodle
55 Hard Times in the Mill
56 Eight-Hour Day
57 Buffalo Skinners
58 Cielito Lindo
59 The Blind Fiddler
60 Peg and Awl
61 She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
62 Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
63 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
64 Come All You Hardy Miners
65 The Big Rock Candy Mountain
66 On Top of Old Smokey
67 Frankie and Johnnie
68 I Ride an Old Paint
69 Old Dan Tucker
70 The Wreck of the Old '97
71 Paddy Works On the Railroad
72 The Ox Driver's Song
73 Cumberland Gap
74 The Trail to Mexico
75 Greer Country Bachelor
76 Fare You Well, Polly
77 Holler
78 Arkansas Traveller
79 Bear Hunt
80 Little Dogies
81 The Foolish Song
82 Turtle Dove
83 The Little Black Bull
84 My Little Kitty
85 The Old Hen
86 Mister Rabbit
87 Racoon's Got a Bushy Tail
88 Old Grey Mule
89 Come All You Bold Sailormen
90 Fly Me Through the Window
91 What Wondrous Love Is This?
92 When I Was Single
93 Grey Goose
94 The Derby Ram
95 Hold the Fort
96 Down In Carlisle (In Castyle There Lived a Lady)
97 The Farmer's Curst Wife
98 Gypsy Davy
99 The Farmer and the Man
100 The Wagoner's Lad
2 Blue Mountain Lake
3 Erie Canal
4 Johnny Gray
5 Sixty Per Cent
6 No Irish Need Apply
7 Pittsburgh Town
8 Raggedy
9 My Children are Seven in Number
10 The Ballad of Barney Graham
11 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
12 The Death of Harry Simms
13 Beans, Bacon, and Gravy
14 Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
15 Mill Mother's Lament
16 Seven Cent Cotton & Forty Cent Meat
17 Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
18 Leatherwing Bat
19 Old Blue
20 Old Joe Clark
21 The Fox
22 The Keeper and The Doe
23 I Know an Old Lady (Who Swallowed a Fly)
24 Cotton Mill Colic
25 I Had a Rooster
26 Whiskey, Rye Whiskey
27 Tex-I-An Boys
28 Mole in the Ground
29 Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
30 He Lies in the American Land
31 Down In the Valley
32 The Golden Vanity
33 Skip to My Lou
34 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
35 John Hardy
36 Ground Hog
37 Sioux Indians
38 Fair Margaret and Sweet William
39 The Titanic Disaster
40 Wabash Cannonball
41 Barbara Allen
42 John Henry
43 The Three Butchers
44 Jesse James
45 Hayseed Like Me
46 St.James Hospital
47 Pretty Polly
48 Roll Down the Line
49 Home On the Range
50 Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
51 If I Had a Hammer
52 Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
53 Blue Tail Fly
54 Yankee Doodle
55 Hard Times in the Mill
56 Eight-Hour Day
57 Buffalo Skinners
58 Cielito Lindo
59 The Blind Fiddler
60 Peg and Awl
61 She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
62 Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
63 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
64 Come All You Hardy Miners
65 The Big Rock Candy Mountain
66 On Top of Old Smokey
67 Frankie and Johnnie
68 I Ride an Old Paint
69 Old Dan Tucker
70 The Wreck of the Old '97
71 Paddy Works On the Railroad
72 The Ox Driver's Song
73 Cumberland Gap
74 The Trail to Mexico
75 Greer Country Bachelor
76 Fare You Well, Polly
77 Holler
78 Arkansas Traveller
79 Bear Hunt
80 Little Dogies
81 The Foolish Song
82 Turtle Dove
83 The Little Black Bull
84 My Little Kitty
85 The Old Hen
86 Mister Rabbit
87 Racoon's Got a Bushy Tail
88 Old Grey Mule
89 Come All You Bold Sailormen
90 Fly Me Through the Window
91 What Wondrous Love Is This?
92 When I Was Single
93 Grey Goose
94 The Derby Ram
95 Hold the Fort
96 Down In Carlisle (In Castyle There Lived a Lady)
97 The Farmer's Curst Wife
98 Gypsy Davy
99 The Farmer and the Man
100 The Wagoner's Lad
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