This text comes from Songs of French Canada, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.
Although my father's only child,
He sent me o'er the ocean wild.
Sautez, mignonne Cecilia,
Ah! ah, Cecilia!
Over the seas and far away,
Borne by a sailor bold and gay.
Borne by a sailor bold and gay,
Who fell in love with me each day.
He fell in love with me each day;
"Ah, sweet! one little kiss, I pray.
"One little kiss for all my care."
"Alas! alas! I'd never dare.
"For if I did," she whispered low,
"My cruel father 'd surely know.
"And should he know your love for me,
A sorely punished maid I'd be."
"Now, foolish maid, we're far away,
How could your father know, I pray?"
"How could my father know, you say?
He'd hear it from the wood-doves grey."
"But even though the doves might sing,
He'd never know the tale they bring."
"He would not understand, think you?
They speak good French—and Latin too."
"Now may his evil neck be wrung
Who taught the doves the Latin tongue."
Sautez, mignonne Cecilia,
Ah! ah, Cecilia!