A note and some MIDI files from Monique:

Hi again Joe

Here are some for this thread
• "Frère Jacques" = "are you sleeping Brother John", everybody knows this one
• "Le carillonneur" for "Maudit sois-tu carillonneur..."
• "Londres flambe" = "London's burning" everybody knows this one too
• "Vent frais, vent du matin" is sung to the tune to "Hey ho anybody home"
• "Ego sum pauper"
• "Matelot puisqu'il fait bon vent"
• "Ballade à la lune" = "C'était dans la nuit brune..." I don't know the tune to the o la lai di ri.." neither does any of my books. This song is been written as a poem by Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)
• "Gai luron des Flandres"



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Ballade à la lune" = "C'était dans la nuit brune (Click to play)

"Ego sum pauper" (Click to play)

"Gai luron des Flandres" (Click to play)

"Il était une bergère" (Click to play)

"Le carillonneur" for "Maudit sois-tu carillonneur..."(Click to play)

"Matelot puisqu'il fait bon vent" (Click to play)

"Le Petit Mercelot" (Click to play)

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Petit Mercelot thread
Il était une bergère thread
That's all for today!

Monique

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Lyrics for most of these are in the post from Charles above, so I added links and tune references in his message.
Thanks, Monique!
-Joe Offer-