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. MS2011-3222-046 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 81-82.“Dansant avec les yeux plein de larme” [“Dansant avec les yeux pleins de larmes”; “Dancing with My Eyes Full of Tears”] is a…
Looseleaf French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-059 Alice Danis Lacourse Songbook.“Du temps que j’etais jeune” (“In my Youth”) is a transcription of a traditional French song which has been documented in…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-032 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 57-58.Strophic song; single verse.“Eliegie” [“Élégie;” “Elegy] is the text of the ca. 1875 French art song “Élégie,” with words by…
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. MS2011-3223-032 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. MS2011-3223-018 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 17.“En passant par Paris en vidant les bouteilles” (“While passing through Paris, Emptying the Bottles”) is a traditional…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-001 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 1. “En Roulant ma boule” (“While Rolling my Ball”). Versions of this traditional French song have been circulating in France…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-004 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 8-10. Scope and Content Note:Strophic song; two verses, one refrain after first verse. “Ferme tes jolis yeux" is a sentimental,…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-007 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 6.“Hier au soir j’ai été dancer” (“Last Night I Went Dancing”). This much-sung French ronde has been in circulation in France…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-019 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 35-36.Strophic song; two verses, one refrain after first verse.“Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur” [“Il est un secret charmant…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-042 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 36.“J’ai tant dansé” (“I Danced so Much”). This much-sung French ronde has been in circulation in France at least since the…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-041 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 71-72.“Je suis la fille bien delaisse” [“Je suis la fille bien délaissée”; “I am the Forsaken Girl”] has the hallmarks of a popular…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-010 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 10.“Je vais vous chanter une chancon” (“I’m Going to Sing You a Song”). This comical song has been only sparsely documented in…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-054 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 57.“Je vais vous chanter une petite chancon” (“I Will Sing You a Little Song”). A similar version of this song text appears…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-013 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 25-26.Strophic song; two verses, one refrain after first verse.“Jeannine au temp des lilas” [“Jeannine au temps des lilas“; “Jeannine…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-037 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 65-66. Strophic song; two verses with a refrain after the first verse.“Juanita” is a transcription of songwriter, composer, pianist,…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-043 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 37.“La Cantinière” (“The Canteen Waitress”) is a transcription of part of an enumerative song which appears in La Bonne Chanson…