This text comes from Songs of French Canada, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.
"Behind my father's house
A wood there is so gay,
The nightingale sings there,
All night and all the day."
Gai lon la, gai le rosier,
Du joli moi de Mai.
"He sings for those fair dames
Who have no husbands gay;
He singeth not for me,
Mine is—is far away.
"I have a husband brave,
But he is far from me,
A prisoner to the Dutch,
In Holland bideth he."
"What wouldst thou give him, love,
Who brought him back to thee?"
"Oh, he should have Sorel,
Quebec and Saint-Denys!"
"Oh, he should have Quebec,
Sorel, and Saint-Denys!"
"Dost know this ring, my love?"
"Oh, joy, joy!—thou art he!"
Gai lon la, gai le rosier,
Du joli moi de Mai.