Nursury rhyme? maybe french?

Question

I'm sorry for so few details but what is this song/ nursery rhyme? i think it's french. I can at best spell it phonetically.

"allow-eesha"????

Answer 1

Are you maybe thinking of Alouette?  You can find lyrics to kids songs at Kididdles.com

Answer 2

Alouette

"Alouette" is also a: user



(thing) by tWD (14.6 hr) (print)    ?   2 C!s Wed Dec 10 2003 at 22:49:59

A-louet-te!

Gentille alouette!

A-louet-te!

Je te plumerai!

Recognize it already, don't you? If not, bear with me, because if you've ever been one of a large group of children in the care of an adult and never sung this song, you are (I assure you) in a small, unfortunate minority. Once a French-Canadian fur-traders' canoe-paddling ditty, Alouette has for generations been a favourite of classrooms and Scout camps the non-Francophone world over. Hardly surprising, as it has all the ingredients of a campfire winner: a simple melody, pseudo-nonsensical lyrics, repetitive verses that get longer and harder as you go on, some doubled lines just begging for a call-and-response, a nice big "O-H-H-H" bit, and that all-important slippery quality of louder = better.

The non-non-Francophone reader may find my use of "pseudo-nonsensical" a little brusque. Honestly, though, my childhood memory of the song is as pure nonsense, which fact detracts from said memory not a jot. Only in my adult years did it occur to me that there is no such song as AAA-LOWETA-JONTY-PLOOMA-RETTA, and that's because I finally stumbled upon the meaning. It is this revelation that I wish to present here - Alouette, lyrics, in the original loud-friendly French, with quiet-reading-friendly English translation. (Francophones, you may go now.)

Alouette!                     Lark.

Gentille alouette!            Nice lark.

Alouette!                     Lark.

Je te plumerai!               I will pluck you.

Je te plumerai la tête        I will pluck your head.

Je te plumerai la tête        I will pluck your head.

Et la tête                    And your head

Et la tête                    And your head

Alouette                      Lark

Alouette                      Lark

               O-H-H-H...

That's right - it's a song about ripping a pretty little bird to bits. HOW COOL IS THAT? If I'd learnt that much French when I was five, I would have been belting out Alouette for the next twenty years straight, I swear.

Answer 3

Is it the song "Alouette"?  

"Alouette, gentille Alouette

    Alouette, je te plumerai

    Je te plumerai la tête

    (Je te plumerai la tête)

    Et la tête

    (Et la tête)

    Alouette

    (Alouette)

   O-o-o-oh

    Alouette, gentille Alouette

    Alouette, je te plumerai

    Je te plumerai le bec

   (Je te plumerai le bec)

    Et le bec

    (Et le bec)

    Et la tête

    (Et la tête)

    Alouette

    (Alouette)

    O-o-o-oh"