"There is ample evidence of the contribution of Patois and French songs to calypso in the 1890s and the 1900s. For example, both Patrick Jones and calypsonian Atilla the Hun point to Martinique as the source of "L'Année Passée" The Haitian tune "Chaconné" is another well-known song borrowed by chantwells in the 1890s (from the melody of a song about a hot-air balloon that flew over Trinidad)."
[Hill, Donald R., Calypso Calaloo, (Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 1993) p.8]