Original Text:
LE COMPLIMENT.
Ce matin, avant l'aurore,
Un Dieu vint me réveiller ;
Il me dit : tu dors encore…
Est-il temps de sommeiller ?

De ton Papa c’est la fête,
Fais lui quelque don flatteur
En lui posant sur la tête
Une Couronne de fleurs.

Translation:
The Compliment.
This morning before dawn
A God came to wake me up
The curtains they were drawn
And my snoring had to stop

It is your daddy's birthday,
A time for gifts and flowers
placed on his head so gray
Instead of his morning showers.