Lyrics to
Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants

This version of Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants was released by Jimmy Buffett in 1979.

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Now young Mr. Moon flew away in the night
With his best friend Magnus right by his side
They soared through the Milky Way counting the stars
Once around Venus, twice around Mars

Then they spied an island rise out of the sea
They fell back to Earth just as free as you please
The children all gathered the church bells did ring
Suddenly everyone started to sing

Chanson pour les petits enfants
Chanson pour toute le monde
Chanson pour les petits enfants
Chanson pour toute le monde

Queen of the island she welcomed them in
Asked them questions of where they have been
She offered them chocolate she offered them tea
They all took their seats in the top of a tree

And raccoons brought wine and the mice they brought cheese
Beautiful birds floated by on the breeze
From out of the oceans the dolphins began
Humming a tune that soon covered the land

So young Princess Lia brought coral and pearls
Gifts to the travelers from some other world
The Bush doctor mixed up a magical spell
Swore them to secrecy, never to tell

So young Mr. Moon flew away in the night
With his best friend Magnus right by his side
The sun was rising, they’d be home by noon
Humming the words to this magical tune

Song for the children
Song for the world

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Jimmy Buffett. Some of the lyrics to Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jimmy Buffett and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants" means the words set to the music of Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jimmy Buffett. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants and the lyrics to Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jimmy Buffett who came here looking just for the lyrics to Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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