Canadian Folk - Envoyons d'l'avant dalszöveg fordítás angol nyelvre

Let us push forward our folks

• 1. I don't know the name of this kind of song, but it was pretty typical of working class french canadian's songs to be stories interlaced with the same chorus. Workmen would take turn singing the verses, something adding new one, while everybody would sing the chorus. This is why there are so many variation of this song.
• 2. Literally : let's send our folks in the front. Meaning : let's go guys/let's put more efforts in this
• 3. From ~1535 up until 1763, Canada was a province of New France. When the britishs took over, they adopted the name topogically, but they would only start calling themselves 'Canadians' around ~1915, effectively forcing the original canadiens to call themselves 'french canadians' or to adopt a new name (québécois)
• 4. A bit nebulous, but it probably mean 'being wet will wake us up' thus 'we'll be more effective once wet'
• 5. Kind of hard to translate. veillée is an evening of fun where people go to bed late if at all
• 6. Compagne/compagnée is basically a significant other. The female version of the word for 'companion'
• 7. Cavalier : a sprightly young dashing military man. Also often used to talk about somebody courting a women
• 8. Amant : somebody you had sex with, but with whom you're not in a relationship with, or you're in a secret relationship with that person while you're not supposed to (ex. a mistress)