Oh, yes, madam, I had some pâté, It’s quite plastic. Lark, lark. ah ! No one has now, nor ever has had any modicum of an iota, and no one cares. I guess singing London bridge is falling down is also terrible (promotes terrorism or whatever) Seriously people its a SONG. It doesn’t matter how you dress it up, it’s still a grisly jingle. you have my email – would like very much on how you can help me learn Parisian French! Du pâté d’alouette I do not like the idea of being cruel to animals. Haut le pied! J’ay l’alouette qui volette, Je la plumeray. I’ll pluck your eyes Bonjour Guillaume, as-tu bien déjeuné? If you’re vegetarian i understand why’d you’d be upset, but for those of you who are upset and eat meat please stop hating on this song because that’s where your food comes from so suck it up and welcome to reality! Read some literature that has nothing to do with 2018 or 2012. My married last name is Lalouette! Monique wrote, “This reference to larks being cooked and eaten can also be found in the circle game song ‘Bonjour Guillaume’. They hunt game and fish to supplement their income or maybe just avoid eating the meat of animals that have been raised in sometimes cruel conditions of captivity and pumped full of growth hormones and other nasty supplements. 3 days ago, by Victoria Messina Alouette, Alouette ! Many lullabies around the world are extremely scary. There was no cookbook handy, most people neither read nor wrote, no internet to search on, the nearest neighbor was probably five or more miles away, and a lone cook has to have some method to remember how to cook and clean game in the proper order. HILARIOUS! We will then pluck off her wings. Plucking birds & chickens in the old days was a child’s work. Now my 5yr old’s Primary teacher (who is a qualified French teacher) is teaching him French in class. Life is radically different these days. Chorus Here’s an idea, don’t eat animals. This is actually a great song to teach to children. I get that stupid message that says not available in your country or region. And the song doesn’t help you ignore that thought. But I always thought this song was much nicer, about a bird flying and landing on the parts of the body. ah ! Unless one’s diet consists of plants only, thinking about killing a bird, goat, cow or any other animal that will be then butchered, cooked and eaten doesn’t paint a pretty picture. It’s as if we bought a chicken or a turkey from a farm and had to pluck the feathers out ourselves. While doing the chore we might have sung a song like “Alouette”… at least in the olden days we may have. You will definitely learn a lot. Plucking a lark or any other bird isnt mutilating it, that’s a ludicrous statement. Minimum Wage is here!!!! One way to make it light-hearted would be to change the lyrics. But it was Garthâs song âThe Danceâ that helped her put the situation into perspective. Said the Wizards of Waverly Place actress: "When I heard it, I felt like my fans need this song right now, especially with Twitter and Facebook. My family sang songs while doing this. See? Je te plumerai le bec, Nothing could be more wholesome. I think you have to consider the song in context, which means considering how it must have been when people killed, plucked and prepared lark to eat. I have the lark that is fluttering, I’ll pluck her feathers. they used to sing it to pass the time when they harvested a bird, I disagree with lists fair enough to people who eat meat but when it all comes down to that youse cant kill them quick enough I think its disgusting, I agree with em meat eaters are just cannibals, Theres people beating you around the bush for questions about it and taking the mick about it through technology that’s why I use very little of it and avoid cables. I know I’m 6 years late on this from the first comments, but it’s annoying to see how small people are. :D. Keep in mind that there’s a lullaby that says “down will come baby, cradle and all” to describe a baby falling out of a tree. I have the lark that is fluttering, I’ll pluck her feathers. I found reference to eating lark in an old American cook book! Looking at the era and circumstance that created this song makes its understanding simple, its a fallacious approach to look at a work of time and literature with an ethical eye. She tries everything including labeling everything in her home with Post-It notes with the French translation to what the item is. Just a song. More to the point, this song is a French folk song, hundreds of years old, sung by hard-working people to make the work-day a littler easier. Lipstick on a pig time. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 1. And anyway, how do you respect something and LAUGH IN ITS FACE at the same time?! Et les yeux, et les yeux, I mean, when I first looked up the meaning behind Alouette, Google said that many believe that a kid was woken up by a lark, so the kid threatens to pluck off his neck, feathers, BACK, beak, etc. I will continue to teach it, but have chosen alternative lyrics to find a way that is not offensive to anyone. 2. J’ay l’alouette qui volette, Je la plumeray. If “Alouette, gentille alouette” had been among them, it wouldn’t have been forgotten as being a Revolutionary song. We’ll keep teaching it to our kids…, I always thought it was a way to teach children the parts of the bird. The song is sweet, the lyrics, uh..not so much. Ah! This is reality. Not a scratch, chest full of Medals and all there mentally and physically! If your only justification for this song not being gruesome is because it’s something we do to eat, consider the fact that we don’t actually need protein from the meat of other animals to survive. Hello, I am a premium use for about 3 years now and I have never had any issues with Spotify on my Android until about a week or two ago. lol) & the horrific prayer, “Now I lay me down to sleep”… That one gave me & children around the world, nightmares (I created a different version of THAT as I refused to pass the original atrocity onward). I mean, I like some controversial songs too, and I don’t go around making people have to listen to my choice of music. This is a song made up to teach children to speak and learn body parts. Haut le dos! The song was a response to Jay-Z's "Takeover", a diss track directed towards Nas and Prodigy. Furthermore, you don’t pluck them – they’re far too small. I sang this song over and over as a kid and it’s one of those cherished rhymes. But being a meat-eater who has had to pluck/eviscerate birds to eat, (which is WAY less gruesome than having to pull the fur off a mammal, I can understand why there would be a use for this back then, as that chore would have fallen to the smallest children & this gives them a list to go by, as they went along, plus the tune is catchy & sticks in your head, making it also easy for non French speakers to learn as an intro to a foreign language & remember. Now it constantly stops in the playlists and it constatnly says "Song is not available" when I know it is, even if it ⦠on Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 at 4:16 pm and is filed under Alouette, Canada, Canadian Children's Songs, Children's Songs, Countries & Cultures, English, France, French, French Kids Songs, Languages, Mama Lisa, United Kingdom, USA. Featuring song lyrics to all the latest and greatest Christian hit songs. It’s a childrens song, but to teach french, by naming all the different parts of the body in french. And I am sure there are many more birds which are eaten around the world. However, there is an old song by Frenchman Nicolas Millot that was published in 1578 (211 years before the French Revolution) and no doubt “Alouette, gentille alouette” originates in that song. You can hear Bonjour Guillaume on Mama Lisa’s World France page. Ah Life. Although they don’t sing about the process of killing and preparing and eating their food, they quite often complete the process! There are other ways of getting protein in your diet, but I’m not here to convert anybody to a plant based diet. 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