Brewer's: Mardi Gras

The last day of the Lent carnival in France, when the prize ox is paraded through the principal streets of Paris, crowned with a fillet, and accompanied with mock priests and a band of tin instruments in imitation of a Roman sacrificial procession.

Tous les ans on vient de la ville Les marchands dans nos cantons, $$$ les mener aux Tuileries, Au Mardi-Gras, devant le roi. Et puit les vendre aux boucheries, J'aime Jeanne ma femme, eh, ha! j'aimerais mieux La voir mourir que voir mourir mes boeufs.

PierreDupont: Les Boeufs.

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