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Thread #85422   Message #3631627
Posted By: Mo the caller
09-Jun-14 - 07:46 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: What's this French tune called?
Subject: RE: Tune Req: What's this French tune called?
We sang this in Junior school. My French can't quite cope with the version above, and I'm not sure I understand what I get from Google Translate. Can anyone spell it out for me

The version I remember includes

What's the hurry humble maiden
Clattering along
What's that in your basket laden
Clattering along
Not so humble let me tell you
Nothing here have I to sell you,
Oh ho ho, clattering along.

Has anyone got any more of that version. Sounds like a story we've heard before but I suppose in the junior school version she went clattering safely on her way.

This tune has been played as part of the DD commemorations. Am I right in thinking that the BBC used it in their broadcasts to occupied France (or was that Lilli Bolero)?