For 35 bells. Lyrics included. Transpose with the button above. Alouette! is, beyond question, the best known of all Canadian folk-songs, among francophones and anglophones alike. As with so many New World folk-songs it is actually an import from the Old World: it came from France of course and the trans-Atlantic trip took place several centuries ago. During World War II Canadian soldiers carried Alouette! back to its native land and began the custom of singing it in Paris cabarets. The lyric is cumulative, in the manner of Old MacDonald’s Farm, but with the added feature that in each verse after the first, the words of the preceding verses are repeated in reverse order. Also odd is the subject matter of the call-and-response lyric, in which a lark is enthusiastically informed, “I will pluck your head, your beak, your nose, your eyes, your neck, your wings, your back, your feet, your tail…”