[Marketing] "Sacré Charlemagne" - lyrics in English

[Sean DALY]

hee hee

it's cute all right... need to run that past the colleagues at OLPC
France at the next meeting

right now I'm more worried about the solving the problems identified
in the Marketlab study though

Sean


On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Ron Feigenblatt <docdtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> In part,  I had just written:
>
>>Is the following cute old song, which made
> ?young France Gall famous, a subtle  ironic
> ?protest on behalf of a Constructivist
>>approach to elementary education?
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH-a22xge-c
>> "Sacré Charlemagne"
>
> .>How would the song fare today in France as potential
>> Sugar propaganda, Sean?
>
> The language of this mailing list being English,
> I realized I should provide a translation of the
> lyrics to  "Sacré Charlemagne" - even if it meant
> relying upon my always-limited, and now mainly
> forgotten French! They follow in the APPENDIX
> below.
>
> Ron F
>
>                          APPENDIX -
>                    "Sacré Charlemagne"
>
> Who had this crazy idea
> To invent the school one day?
> Who had this crazy idea
> To invent the school one day?
> It's... this... sacred Charlemagne
> Sacred Charlemagne!
>
> Allow us to live
> On Thursdays as on Sundays
> Allow us to live
> On Thursdays as on Sundays
> It's... this... sacred Charlemagne
> Sacred Charlemagne!
>
> This son of Pepin the Short
> Gives us a lot of trouble
> And we have a hundred complaints
> Against, against, against him
>
> Who had this crazy idea
> To invent the school one day?
> Who had this crazy idea
> To invent the school one day?
> It's... this... sacred Charlemagne
> Sacred Charlemagne!
>
> Past participle
> 4 and 4 makes 8
> Lesson of French
> Of mathematics
>  That of
> Homework: Homework
> Sacred sacred sacred sacred
> sacred Charlemagne!
>
> He should have been stroking
> His long flowing beard
> He should have been stroking
> His long flowing beard
> Oh! oh! sacred Charlemagne
> Sacre Charlemagne!
>
> Instead of boring us
> With geography
> Oh! oh! sacred Charlemagne
> Sacre Charlemagne!
>
> He had only to deal
> Battles and hunting
> We would not be forced
> To go to class every day
>
> We must learn to count
> And do a lot of dictations
> We must learn to count
> And do a lot of dictations
> Oh! oh! sacred Charlemagne
> Sacred Charlemagne!
>
> Past participle
> 4 and 4 makes 8
> Lesson of French
> Of mathematics
> That of: That of - Homework: Homework
> Sacred sacred sacred sacred
> sacred Charlemagne!
>
> Because without him in our lives
> There would be no Thursdays
> Oh! oh! sacred Charlemagne
> Oh! oh! sacred Charlemagne
> Oh! oh! sacred Charlemagne
> Oh! oh! sacred Charlemagne
> Oh! oh! sacred Charlemagne
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