"Au Clair de la Lune (Comptines de France)" has been shared to the blog from the French reading exercises section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills.
With this year’s Summer series, let’s all feel like kids again as we (re)discover classic French nursery rhymes. With our fourth and final installment, gently go to sleep with the famous moonlit lullaby Au Clair de la Lune.
After listening to the song, scroll down for the transcript in our bilingual reader, where you can click any French phrase for the English translation and related grammar lessons.
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Au Clair de la Lune (Comptines de France)
Au clair de la lune
Mon ami Pierrot
Prête-moi ta plume
Pour écrire un mot
Ma chandelle est morte
Je n'ai plus de feu
Ouvre-moi ta porte
Pour l'amour de Dieu
Au clair de la lune
Pierrot répondit
Je n'ai pas de plume
Je suis dans mon lit
Va chez la voisine
Je crois qu'elle y est
Car dans sa cuisine
On bat le briquet
Au clair de la lune
S'en fut Arlequin
Frapper chez la brune
Elle répond soudain
Qui frappe de la sorte ?
Il dit à son tour
Ouvrez votre porte
Pour le Dieu d'Amour
Au clair de la lune
On n'y voit qu'un peu
On chercha la plume
On chercha le feu
En cherchant de la sorte
Je n'sais [ne sais] c'qu'on [ce qu'on] trouva
Mais je sais qu'la [que la] porte
Sur eux se ferma
Author info
For over ten years now, Céline has been teaching French and Italian to students of all ages and abilities in the UK. This French native speaker comes from Brittany, and likes crafts, Breton dance (of course!) and Breton music which she actually played for four years. She also has a fondness for European cinema and British History.
Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!