Video Information

• Choir: dwsChorale
• Piece: Patapan
• Composer:  Bernard de la Monnoye
• Arranger:  David Warin Solomons
• Voices:  AATB drum flute
• Genres: Folk/Ethnic, Christmas
• Patapan is a traditional song from the Burgundy region in France. It’s also known in English as Willie Take Your Little Drum. It was written by Bernard de la Monnoye around 1700.
  My English version here is a singing translation, so feel free to...  morePatapan is a traditional song from the Burgundy region in France. It’s also known in English as Willie Take Your Little Drum. It was written by Bernard de la Monnoye around 1700.
  My English version here is a singing translation, so feel free to sing along in English :-)
  
  Guillaume prends ton tambourin
  Toi, prends ta flûte, Robin;
  Au son de ces instruments
  "Turelurelu, patapatapan"
  Au son de ces instruments
  Je dirai Noel gaîment.
  
  Willie take your little drum
  With your flute oh Robin come
  With the sound of flute and drum
  tootle tootle toot, bing a bang a boom
  with the flute and with the drum
  I will say Nowell with joy.
  
  C'était la mode autrefois
  De louer le Roi des rois
  Au son de ces instruments
  "Turelurelu, patapatapan"
  Au son de ces instruments
  Il nous en faut faire autant.
  
  In the goodly olden days
  The king of kings we'd praise
  with the drum and with the flute
  tootle tootle toot, bing a bang a boom,
  with the flute and with the drum
  we should do alike just so  less