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Many of the songs favoured by the voyageurs have been passed down to the present era. "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.
It has a typical sulid body shape, with a long pointed yellowish bill, long neck, aerodynamic body, long slender wings and pointed tail. The adult is bright white with black wings, a black tail and a dark face mask; at 75–85 cm (30–33 in) long, it is the largest species of booby. The sexes have similar plumage.
The Hampster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes.Created in 1998 by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte as a GeoCities page, the dance features rows of animated GIFs of hamsters and other rodents dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song "Whistle-Stop", written and performed by Roger Miller for the 1973 Walt Disney Productions film Robin Hood.
Pages in category "French children's songs" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ah ! Les crocodiles
The song concerns a friar's duty to ring the morning bells (matines). Frère Jacques has apparently overslept; it is time to ring the morning bells, and someone wakes him up with this song. [3] The traditional English translation preserves the scansion, but alters the meaning such that Brother John is being awakened by the bells.
The song was used with the opening credits of, and as a main melody line through, the 1980 movie Oh!Heavenly Dog, starring Chevy Chase, Jane Seymour and Benji.In 2010, neo-soul artist Erykah Badu sampled "Arrow Through Me" on an album track called "Gone Baby, Don't Be Long" on her CD New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh).
The French composer Marin Marais composed the tune as a dance for his opera Alcyone of 1706, with the title Marche pour les Matelots. [1] [2]The tune was subsequently included in Raoul Auger Feuillet's 1706 Recueil de contredanse along with a longways proper dance, La Matelotte, which Feuillet had himself written to go with the tune.
The song goes on to add (in translation) "She wasn’t the brightest/But in bed, that’s not important." [3] [10] The singer runs into her in the street many years later. He sees a woman who is as fat as a hippopotamus, has a double chin and "triple breasts". She runs up to him with an affectionate shout and throws her arms around his neck.