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"Ah! vous dirai-je, maman " " Ah! vous dirai-je, maman" (French: [a vu diʁeʒ(ə) mamɑ̃], English: Oh!Shall I tell you, Mama) is a popular children's song in France. Since its composition in the 18th century, the melody has been applied to numerous lyrics in multiple languages – the English-language song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is one such example.
There is a strong oral tradition among children in China, Vietnam and other places in Asia of passing on songs with their own lyrics, sung to the tune of "Frère Jacques". [39] Frère Jacques is the name of a chain of franchised French restaurants in the UK [40] and the name of a French restaurant in the Murray Hill section of New York City. [41]
French colonists ate horned larks, which they considered a game bird. "Alouette" has become a symbol of French Canada for the world, an unofficial national song. [3] Today, the song is used to teach French and English-speaking children in Canada, and others learning French around the world, the names of body parts.
The song is sung by Anne Boleyn in the television series The Tudors, episode 9 of season 2, "The Act of Treason" (2008). The song is featured in the Mad Men episode " Tomorrowland " (2010). On Peter, Paul and Mary 's 2014 Discovered: Live in Concert album, Peter Yarrow and Noel Stookey sing an adapted English version.
J'ai vu le loup ("I saw the wolf") is a French folk song, and also a nursery rhyme. [1] Due to it having been transmitted orally, it is difficult to pinpoint its exact origin, though the earliest versions date back to the High Middle Ages. [2]
[1] [2] The song has been around since at least 1860 and relates the adventures of an Egyptian crocodile going to war against Elephants. [3] This nineteenth-century nursery rhyme is derived from Jacques Offenbach's song Hooray for the Crocodile, part of the Tromb-al-ca-zar ou les Criminels dramatiques, premiered in April 1856. [4]
Loup y es-tu?" (in French: Promenons nous dans les bois) is a popular French children's song, from at least the XIX century. [1] It sings about how a group enters a forest where no wolf is to be seen and "as long as he isn't there, he won't eat us". During the refrain the wolf is called, but each time he is busy putting on one of his clothes.