[Brian Allgar]

Another one that is fun, and perhaps the only one I've listened to so far that seems to have no metrical problems - as somebody said, the translation fits the music like a glove.

Any "nits" that I might feel have already been pointed out by TSDG and others.

I also miss the "Deux grands yeux qui brillaient". Here's a rough idea of how I might have kept them:

The moon was dark and grimy,
The cats gave yowling cries,
And then I saw – oh, blimey! -
Two large and shining eyes.

[Rob Wright]

I enjoyed this one enormously: yodeler, ( I love the way she did the horns in the bridge as "Pom-pom-pom") the original recording and most importantly the translation itself. As has been reported by other commenters, the meter was smooth and flowing as in the French. Like Skip, I found "I seen" more American or Irish vernacular than French slang, and as others have said, I missed the glowing eyes, which are wonderfully creepy, but those are minor faults in an otherwise fine piece of translation. My current favorite.