French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-019 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 18.“Dans la ville il y a un pont” (“In the City, There Is a Bridge”) is a traditional French song catalogued by Conrad Laforte…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-020 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 18-19.“Dans le temps des fêtes” (“In the Holiday Season”) is a traditional comical song about Christmas season reveling set to…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-021 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 19.[“Préparons nous son père, pour fêter le Jour de l’An” (“Let’s Get Ready, My Old Man, to Celebrate New Year’s Day”) is a…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-022 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 20.“Les gens de la noce sont arrivé” (“The Wedding Party Has Arrived”).
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-023 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 21-22.“La ration de la viande;” (“The Meat Ration”). This double entendre song about meat rationing is probably the text to a…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-024 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 23.“Comm c’a” (“Like That”) is a ca. 1926 popular French-Canadian song with words and music by Montreal songwriter Lucien…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-025 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 23.“Ma mignonne” (“My Pretty One”) is a traditional French cumulative song which in Quebec is commonly associated with the…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-028 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 27.En automobile Batis pis Dora” (“In the Car, Baptiste and Dora”). The sexual undertone and racist-based humor of this text…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-029 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 28.Les cloches du hameau (“The Church Bells of the Hamlet”) is the work of singer, composer, songwriter and poet, Albert…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-030 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 28.“Le petit mousse” (“The Little Cabin Boy”). This is a fragmentary version of the French sentimental song, “Le petit mousse…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-031 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 29.“Les filles de la Rochelle” (“The Girls from la Rochelle”) is a version of a venerable French traditional song sometimes…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-032 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 30.“En passant par la Lorraine” (“While Passing through Lorraine”) is a version of a French traditional song which has been in…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-033 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 31.“A la claire fontaine” (“At the Clear Fountain”)’s an iconic traditional French ballad whose earliest known printed setting…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-034 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 31.“Alouette” (“Lark”). This venerable French traditional cumulative song and ronde has seen service since the 17th century,…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-035 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 31.“Le petit avocat” (“The Little Lawyer”) is a version of a traditional French song which has been in circulation since at…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-036 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 32.This is a transcription of St-Hyacinthe, Quebec author and Catholic abbé F. X. Burque’s ca. 1905 rewrite of a widely sung…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-037 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 33.“C’est l’aviron” (“It’s the Oar”) is a version of a traditional French folk song which has been in circulation since at last…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-039 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 33.“Sur la route de Berthier” (“On the Road from Berthier”). This text appears to be virtually identical (with the exception of…