Lyrics - French
(French folk song)
Trois jeunes tambours s’en revenant
de guerre (bis)
Et ri et ran, ran pa ta plan.
S’en revenant de guerre.
Le plus jeune a dans sa bouche une rose (bis)
Et ri et ran, ran pa ta plan.
Dans sa bouche une rose.
Fille du roi était à sa fenêtre (bis)
Et ri et ran, ran pa ta plan.
Etait à sa fenêtre.
English Translation - The pretty drum
1. Three young drummers coming back from war, (repeat)
Et ri ran, ran pa ta plan (drumming sounds)
Three young drummers coming back from war
2. The younger one has a rose in his mouth…
3. The king’s daughter was at her window…
See also
- French folk songs
- steady beat songs
- songs about drums
- songs with dotted eighth note – sixteenth note patterns
- songs with chords I V
- more lyrics
- source: Songs That Children Sing, Eleanor Chroman, Oak Publications, 1970
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- Song with chords, English version, Lesson ideas for steady beat
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