{"id":109,"date":"2017-04-19T20:04:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T20:45:54","slug":"ah-les-crocodiles-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/ah-les-crocodiles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah les crocodiles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeannine learned this song at a summer camp, when she was 6 or 7 years old. She recalls going on outings with other children her own age where she made new friends and learned new songs. The song tells the story of a crocodile going off to war against elephants, but when the crocodile sees the elephant, he decides not to fight and jumps into a nearby river instead.<\/p>\n\n

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Lyrics: Ah les crocodiles<\/strong><\/p>\n

French:<\/strong>
\nUn crocodil’ s’en allant \u00e0 la guerre
\nDisait au r’voir \u00e0 ses petits enfants
\nTra\u00eenant ses pieds, ses pieds dans la poussi\u00e8re
\nIl s’en allait combattr’ les \u00e9l\u00e9phants.<\/p>\n

Refrain:
\nAh les crococo, les crococo, les crocodiles
\nSur les bords du Nil ils sont partis n’en parlons plus
\nAh les crococo, les crococo, les crocodiles
\nSur les bords du Nil ils sont partis n’en parlons plus<\/p>\n

Il fredonnait une marche militaire
\nDont il m\u00e2chait les mots \u00e0 grosses dents,
\nQuand il ouvrait la gueule tout enti\u00e8re
\nOn croyait voir ses ennemis dedans.<\/p>\n

Refrain<\/p>\n

Un \u00e9l\u00e9phant parut et sur la terre
\nSe pr\u00e9para ce combat de g\u00e9ants
\nMais pr\u00e8s de l\u00e0, courait une rivi\u00e8re
\nLe crocodil’ s’y jeta subit’ment.<\/p>\n

Refrain<\/p>\n

English:<\/strong>
\nA crocodile was going off to war
\nSaying goodbye to his small children
\nDragging his feet, his feet in the dust
\nHe was going off, off to fight the elephants.<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nAh the crococo, the crococo, the crocodiles
\nOn the banks of the Nile they left,
\nlet\u2019s not talk about it any more
\nAh the crococo, the crococo, the crocodiles
\nOn the banks of the Nile they left,
\nlet\u2019s not talk about it any more<\/p>\n

He was humming a military march
\nWhose words he was chewing with big teeth,
\nWhen he opened his maw all the way
\nWe believed we saw his enemies inside it<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

An elephant suddenly arrived
\nA battle of giants began.
\nBut near there, a river was flowing
\nThe crocodile suddenly leapt into it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Ah<\/a><\/div>\n\n
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Jeannine learned this song at a summer camp, when she was 6 or 7 years old. She recalls going on outings with other children her own age where she made new friends and learned new songs. The song tells the story of a crocodile going off to war against elephants, but when the crocodile sees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5836,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}