La chanson du jour - French songs 101

Selected songs - comptines

 

Ainsi font, font les petites marionnettes

Alouette

Au clair de la lune

C'est la mère Michèle

Le bon roi Dagobert

Fais dodo, Colas mon p'tit frère

Frère Jacques

Il était un petit navire

Meunier tu dors

Sur le pont d'Avignon

 

Looking for children's 'comptines': le bon roi Dagobert

What are the songs taught to most of the French children? I start with Le bon roi Dagobert, pretty popular with 2,4 million views for this recording on YouTube. Wikipedia tells us it would have been created in 1750 but the lyrics have changed along the years.

Here the French Wiki that includes all the lyrics (24 sections, below the first two)

Il était un petit navire

YT 7 million + views   Wiki.fr explains (in French) the evolution of the lyrics.

Meunier tu dors

YT 1.5 million views (several versions with this number of views)

C'est la mère Michèle

YT about 5.6 million views. The music was from the 17th with different lyrics. Apparently began with those lyrics around 1820... (wiki.fr dixit)