French
Au clair de la lune, mon ami Pierrot
Prête-moi ta lume,* pour écrire un mot.
Ma chandelle est morte, je n'ai plus de feu.
Ouvre-moi ta porte, pour l'amour de Dieu.

Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit
Je n'ai pas de lume, je suis dans mon lit.
Va chez la voisine, je crois qu'elle y est
Car dans sa cuisine, on bat le briquet.

Au clair de la lune, l'aimable Lubin
Frappe chez la brune, elle répond soudain
"Qui frappe de la sorte ? ", il dit à son tour
"Ouvrez votre porte pour le Dieu d'Amour"

Au clair de la lune, on n'y voit qu'un peu
On chercha la lume, on chercha du feu
En cherchant d'la sorte je n'sais c'qu'on trouva
Mais je sais qu'la porte sur eux se ferma.

English
Under the moonlight, my friend Pierrot,
Lend me your light, so I could write a word.
My candle is out, I've no more light.
Open your door for me, for the love of God.

Under the moonlight, Pierrot replied,
I've no light; I'm in my bed.
Go next door, I believe that she is in,
For in the kitchen, someone lit a match.

Under the moonlight, friendly Lubin
Knocks at the brunette's door, she suddenly replies
"Who's knocking this way", he says in his turn
"Open your door, for the god of love."

Under the moonlight, little can be seen
The light was looked for, fire was looked for
Searching this way, I don't know what was found
But I do know that the door, on them was shut.

*In modern versions, this word is "plume", meaning pen. "Lume" is derived from "lumière", meaning "light".
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au_clair_de_la_lune

This past weekend, I was out of town for a conference and, aside from visiting my brother and his family (my 2-year-old nephew is way cute!), I managed to visit cjmr & d_84, finally returning their Doctor Who series 2 DVD set to them. cjmr made pasta for dinner with home-made pesto that was delicious! :) cjmr and d_84 also gave me advice on which "old Who" episodes available for download on iTunes were worth watching. That discussion inspired d_84 to sort through his Doctor Who videotape collection and he gave me his tape of the first 3 Doctor Who stories ever that he'd recorded from a PBS broadcast. (BTW, d_84, my VCR didn't eat it, but I assume you don't want the tape back, since you said you were cleaning out the videotapes that were duplicates of what you have on DVD?)

I spent Monday evening watching these first 3 Doctor Who stories and they struck me as having a very Lost in Space quality about them (although these episodes precede Lost in Space by a few years and the latter show was based on The Swiss Family Robinson). I don't mean to suggest that reminding me of Lost in Space is a bad thing - I used to love Lost in Space when I was a kid and frequently played it with my friends in the school playground near my house. The jungle gym was the spaceship and I always got to be Penny. :) There was a small building next to the the school building that we called "the powerhouse". I'm not sure that it supplied power to the school, but there were vents on the side of it and no windows. Also, there was the whirring of machinery from inside. So, it's no surprise that's where the monster, from whatever planet upon which we happened to be stranded, lived. As a child, I was so caught up in this fantasy that I'm sure, if I went back there now, I'd still feel as if there was a monster associated with that building...

( Cut for my thoughts on the first Doctor and more... )

BTW, did anyone know that John Williams, giant of film score composition, wrote the theme for Lost in Space? I just found out when I looked up information about the Lost in Space TV show last night: