French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-001 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 3-6. Scope and Content Note: Strophic song; three verses, two refrains (first refrain follows first verse; second refrain follows third…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-002 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 6-7. Scope and Content Note: Strophic song; two verses, one refrain after first verse.“Vieillissons ensemble” is a French-language…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-003 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 7-8. Scope and Content Note: Strophic song; three verses, two refrains (first refrain follows first verse; second refrain follows third…
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. MS2011-3223-001 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. MS2011-3223-003 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 3.“Ma mère m’envoie-t-au marché” (“My Mother Sent Me to Market”) is a traditional French-language folk song and round in which…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-004 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 3.The content and structure of this song suggest that it is either a traditional locally composed song from Quebec, or a…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-006 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 5.“La chançon des Crèpes” (“The Crepes Song”). This is the text of a ca. 1918 original song titled “Les crêpes,” with words and…
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. MS2011-3223-008 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 7.“Nous avons une fillette” (“We Have a Young Daughter”) is a version of French singer-songwriter, poet, and plawright Théodore…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-009 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 9.“Quand j’etais de chez mon pere Digne Don Daine” (“When I Lived at my Father’s, Digne Don Daine”) is a venerable traditional…
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. MS2011-3223-013 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 13.“Nous prendrions bien un coup” (“We Would All Take a Drink”). This song has not been documented in France and is only…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-014 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 14.“Meilleur mangeur au monde” (“Best Eater in the World”). The text of this comical song suggests that it is a popular song…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-015 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 15.“Boum badiboum badiba tra la la”. This venerable French traditional song has been in circulation since at least 1575, the…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-016 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 15.“Chancon de la marie” (“The Bride’s Song”). This is a traditional French ballad catalogued by French-Canadian ballad scholar…
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-017 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 16.“Comm’ ça” (“Like This”) 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. MS2011-3223-018 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 17.“En passant par Paris en vidant les bouteilles” (“While passing through Paris, Emptying the Bottles”) is a traditional…