Fatou Yo

Lyrics – Balanta

(Folk song from Senegal)

Fatou yo si dia dialano
Fatou yo si dia dialano
(repeat)

Fatou faye faye fatou
Fatou kélémen dio
Fatou yo si dia dialano
(repeat)

Boutoumbélé boutoumbélé
Boutoumbélé
(repeat twice)

O ma mi se ra
O Ma mycasse boutoumbélé
(repeat)

Fatou yo si dia dialano
Fatou yo si dia dialano
(repeat)

I am Fatou, pretty Fatou,
I am Fatou, pretty Fatou.
(repeat)

Fatou oh, oh Fatou,
Like all the children of the world
I am Fatou, pretty Fatou.
(repeat)

I am happy and will surely grow up
I am happy and will surely grow up
(repeat)

I will grow up like everybody else
Like the little elephants and the little giraffes
(repeat)

I am Fatou, pretty Fatou,
I am Fatou, pretty Fatou.
(repeat)