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Children's Songs and Nursery Rhymes
Chanson de la minette
Pussycat's song
Lullaby
(Reunion Creole)

Dodo la minette,
l'enfant de Jeannette
Si la minette, y dodo pas
Chat' marron va souke à elle.
Lullaby
(English)

Sleep, pussycat
Jeannette's child
If pussycat doesn't sleep
A big brown cat will eat her.
 
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Glossary

Dodo : to go to sleep
La minette : baby (whether boy or girl)
Chat' : cat (whether he or she)
Y souke : will eat (or crunch) him/her

Many thanks to Claudie Caderbi for contributing and singing this song and to Monique Palomares for translating it.

Mersi!

 
 
 
 
 
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