La berceuse créole (Créole Lullaby)

Sha la la, go to sleep little baby,
warm in your little bed,
dream until morning.

Sha la la, dream beautiful dreams,
no bad gris gris
fall around you.

many men go to fighting,
fire on de levée,
hide me in me pirogue
all night long.
many many mojo mauvais,
bang, bang des fusils.
Oh, I do not know,
I do not know a thing.

sha la la, love for the little baby,
you know that you mama and you papa
will love you always.

sha la la, wherever you go
keep you heart full
full of love.

sadness be a shame shame,
fighting fo di money,
my harmony
is all broke up
some day we be brothers,
tout le monde love one another,
tout monde va vivre en paix,
we gonna live in peace.