Lyrics - French
(Folk song from France)
J’ai perdu le do de ma clarinette, (repeat)
Ah ! si papa il savait ça, tralala, (repeat)
Il dirait: Ohé ! (repeat)
Tu n’connais pas la cadence
Tu n’sais pas comment l’on danse
Tu ne sais pas danser
Au pas cadencé
//Au pas, camarade, au pas, camarade,
Au pas, au pas, au pas.// (repeat)
2. J’ai perdu le ré de ma clarinette…
3. …mi…
4. …fa…
5. …sol…
6. …la…
7. …si…
English Translation – I lost the “do” of my clarinet
I lost the “do” of my clarinet, (repeat)
Ah! if daddy knew that, tra-la-la, (repeat)
He would say, Hey! (repeat)
You don’t know the tempo
You don’t know how to dance (repeat)
In quick time
//In step, friend, in step, friend,
At a walk, at a walk, at a walk,
In step, in step, in step.// (repeat)
- I lost the “re” of my clarinet …
- …mi…
- …fa…
- …so…
- …la…
- …ti..
See also
- Country: France
- Subjects: family / instruments
- Harmony: I, V
- Melody: major scale (see adapted version in Plus material below) / Solfege
- Meter: mixed
- Scale: hexachord
- Timbre: Boomwhackers
- Tones: s,drmfsl
- Similar tune: Mi chacra
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
cool! Another song similar to “Down on Grandpa’s Farm”!
Super cute, eh?
but are the scale degrees from the clarinetist’s perspective or a flutist’s perspective? The English translation is “I lost the C on my clarinet” which would be a B-flat to flutist