Frère Jacques
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Frère Jacques is a well known children's song sung in the French language, usually used for basic melody training and practicing 'canon' music playing (where different players and/or singers start playing/singing the same tune with a temporal offset).
Jean-Luc Picard and the winners of the school science fair aboard the USS Enterprise-D sung this song while climbing up a turbolift shaft in 2368. (TNG: "Disaster")
Frère Jacques was one of the first tunes that Captain Picard, as Kamin, learned to play on his Ressikan flute. (TNG: "The Inner Light")
Picard (playing his Ressikan flute) and Nella Daren (playing her portable piano) performed a canon of Frère Jacques in Picard's quarters on the Enterprise-D in 2369. (TNG: "Lessons")
- Frère Jacques Beaulieu was actually a celebrated 17th century French lithotomist, born in 1651.
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[edit] Lyrics
[edit] Original (French)
Frère Jacques,
Frère Jacques,
Dormez vous?
Dormez vous?
Sonnez les matines,
Sonnez les matines,
Din, din, don!
Din, din, don!
[edit] English translation
Brother Jack,
Brother Jack,
Are you sleeping?
Are you sleeping?
Ring the morning bells,
Ring the morning bells,
Ding, Ding, Dong!
Ding, Ding, Dong!
- There is also an English language version of the song; Jacques is translated as John, the first and second lines are switched, while the other lines are adapted as Morning Bells are Ringing instead of Ring the Morning Bells (imperative)
