Dites-Moi Tell Me

My darling daughter sent me this by text. I glanced at it and replied, "What is this?"

She said  "Perhaps you should hum it, like you use to when I was little and going to sleep."

"I know you know the tune. You sing it perfectly." 

"Took me a while, but I found it. :) it's very pretty, albeit simple when translated."

South Pacific, 1958.  Dites-Moi sung by Ngana and Jerome.

(I remember my mother singing the song when I was a little girl. I don't speak French, I didn't know the words. I have always sung it the way I remember it from my childhood. I have many of the words wrong. 

But in my head it is still beautiful. And I would sing it to my babies, and even when they got older, at night before bed, it was one of our favorites. I hope my babies sing it to their babies, its such a tender song.)