
Savez-vous planter les choux ?
Do You Know How to Plant Cabbage?
Chanson enfantine
(French)
Savez-vous planter les choux
À la mode, à la mode ?
Savez-vous planter les choux
À la mode de chez nous ?
On les plante avec le doigt
À la mode, à la mode
On les plante avec le doigt
À la mode de chez nous
On les plante avec les mains…
On les plante avec le pied…
On les plante avec le coude…
On les plante avec le nez…
Children's Song
(English)
Do you know how to plant cabbage
In the style, in the style?
Do you know how to plant cabbage
In the style of our country?
We plant them with the finger
In the style, in the style
We plant them with the finger
In the style of our country
We plant them with the hands…
We plant them with the foot…
We plant them with the elbow…
We plant them with the nose…

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Many thanks to Monique Palomares for contributing and translating this song and for creating the midi music.
Illustrations by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1851-1913) from Vieilles Chansons pour les Petits Enfants: Avec Accompagnements / de Ch. M. Widor (1844 - 1937); Illustrations Par M.B. de Monvel. Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, [1883]. The images were graphically edited by Lisa Yannucci.
Many thanks to Edit' Dupont for singing this song for us!
Merci beaucoup!

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First verse: Go around in a circle. Next verses: the children do as if planting with the part of the body that has been said. More verses can be invented.