This carol is from the Poitou region in Western France.

Notes

Note that "poupon" today usually means "baby-boy doll" but it originally meant "baby, infant", etymologically suckling infant.

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Sheet Music

Sheet Music - Promptement levez-vous mon voisin

Thanks and Acknowledgements

Translation by Monique Palomares.