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"Alouette" usually involves audience participation, with the audience echoing every line of each verse after the verse's second line. It is a cumulative song, with each verse built on top of the previous verses, much like the English carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Below are the original French lyrics along with a literal English translation.
"Little Bunny Foo Foo" is a children's poem and song.The poem consists of four-line sung verses separated by some spoken words. The verses are sung to the tune of the French-Canadian children's song "Alouette" (1879), which is melodically similar to "Down by the Station" (1948) and the "Itsy Bitsy Spider". [1]
Whether deliberately copied or not, the melody of "Down by the Station" is closely related to the chorus of the French-Canadian folk song "Alouette". [3] [better source needed] Some have pointed out that though the first line is similar to "Alouette", it is closer to the tune of "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider," with the first two lines being similar.
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The song is based on the popular French children's song "Alouette", which means "skylark". The chorus directly references lyrics from "Alouette" including the line "Je te plumerai la tête", which means "I shall pluck your head". The beginning of the music video also depicts a young girl singing the opening lines to "Alouette".
Clock Opera's debut single "White Noise" backed with "Alouette" was released on 7" vinyl by Pure Groove Records on 16 November 2009. [11] In 2010, the band put out two EPs on French labels: "A Piece of String" from Maman Records [12] and "Once and for All" from Kitsuné. [13] Both EPs included remixes of the singles.
Also, this makes no sense to me: A modified version of the song, referring to "lightning (fast) French alopecia, from the song of the same name", appears in Call of the West, an episode of The Goon Show, sung by Hercules Grytpype-Thynne and Count Jim Moriarty. 86.134.30.105 16:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Aérospatiale Alouette III, a light utility helicopter built in France (1961–1985) No. 425 Squadron RCAF, also known as Alouette Squadron and now called 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron, a squadron of CF-18 based out of Bagotville, Quebec; Alouette 1, a Canadian satellite launched in 1962; Alouette 2, a Canadian satellite launched in 1965