French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-039 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 34.‘Le petit Cordonnier” (“The Little Shoemaker”). This text appears to be virtually identical to the setting of this song…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-041 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 35.“Veillée rustique” (“Rustic Evening Party”). Versions of this traditional French song, most commonly known as “La destinée,…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-041 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 35.“Au bois du rossignolet” (“In the Woods of the Nightingale”). This venerable French song has been in circulation since the…
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. MS2011-3223-043 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…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-044 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 37.“Quand j’étais chez mon père, apprenti pastouriau”(“When I Lived at my Father’s as an Apprentice-Shepherd”). This…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-045 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 38.“La poule à Colin” (“Colin’s Hen”). This French traditional song has been most widely collected in Quebec, as well as…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-046 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 38.“Marie Calumet” (“Marie Calumet”). This song appears to originate in Quebec; there are no documented versions from France.…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-047 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 39.“Les montagnards” (“The Mountaineers”) is a song composed in 1832 by French violinist, poet, composer, conservatory director…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-048 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 41.“A qui me passera le bois” (“Who Will Guide Me Through the Woods?”) is a traditional French song which has been widely…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-051 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 51.“Prendre un verre de bière, mon minou” (“Have a Glass of Beer, Sweetie”). The earliest known appearance of this Québécois…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-052 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 54.There are unrelated two couplets; the first is possibly a jingle for a beer company; the second is the refrain to a song…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-053 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 56.“Flic! Flac! Floc! Dans l’eau” (“Splish! Splash! Sploosh! In the Water”). This is an original popular Quebecois song with…
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. MS2011-3223-055 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 58-59.“Mon père m’a donné t’un mari” (“My Father Gave me a Husband”). This is a version of a very well-known traditional French…
Song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-056 Alice Danis Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 60.“Bing bang, bang, je m’en vais rouler” (“Bing, Bang, Bang, I’m Going to Roll Along”): this is a transcription of the traditional French song…
Looseleaf French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-057 Alice Danis Lacourse Songbook.This is a transcription of “Les cinq jumelles” (“The Quintuplet Sisters”), a song celebrating the Dionne quintuplets,…
Looseleaf French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-058 Alice Danis Lacourse Songbook.“A s’etait un petit cordonnier” (“Ah! It was a Little Shoemaker”). This is a version of a traditional French song which…