2021.03.16.
Jack Monoloy
Jack Monoloy loved a White girlJack Monoloy was an Indian
He saw her every Sunday
But the parents, knew nothing about this.
All the birches of the Mingan river
All the birches remember it:
Mariouche was pretty
Jack Monoloy was handsome.
'Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack' said the ducks,
The partridges and the teals,
« Monoloy» said the wind
Mariouche is for a White man.
He had written with a hunting knife
His love’s name on a birch.
One day they followed their tracks
They saw them by the water’s edge.
All the birches of the Mingan river
All the birches remember it:
Mariouche was pretty
Jack Monomoy was handsome.
'Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack' said the ducks,
The partridges and the teals
« Monoloy» said the wind
Mariouche is for a White man.
Jack Monoloy was working painfully,
Mariouche was in the convent
And the river flows just barely
Slower than before.
All the birches of the Mingan river
All the birches remember it:
Mariouche was pretty
Jack Monomoy was handsome.
Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack» said the ducks,
The partridges and the teals,
« Monoloy » said the wind
Mariouche is for a White man.
Jack Monoloy -God save his soul,
In full sunlight Sunday morning
In a white canoe from the top of the dam
He jumped to his destiny.
All the birches of the Mingan river
All the birches remember it:
Mariouche was pretty
Jack Monomoy was handsome.
Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack» said the ducks,
The partridges and the teals,
« Monoloy » said the wind
Mariouche is for a White man.
Mariouche is in the village,
Jack Monoloy is at the bottom of the water
See him float above the clouds
And the canoes and the logs.
All the birches of the Mingan river
All the birches have memories
And their bark is all black
Since Jack Monoloy kicked the bucket. *
Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack» said the ducks,
The partridges and the teals
« Monoloy» said the wind
Mariouche is for a White man!