Hier au soir j’ai été dancer ((MS2011-3223-007))

Hier au soir j’ai été dancer ((MS2011-3223-007))

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 at least since the first half of the 1600s. Versions have been widely documented in France and Quebec as well as in Belgium, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Ontario, Rhode Island, and Switzerland. Another version of this song appears later in this manuscript under the title ”J’ai tant dansé.”

In 1925, Montreal singer Charles Marchand recorded a version of this song under the title “J’ai tant danse, j’ai tant saute” for the Starr/Gennett label (issue # 15221; matrix #1795). Marchand (1890-1930) founded a vocal quartet called “Le Carillon canadien” in order to promote French-Canadian folk songs and new songs inspired by traditional customs and settings. You can hear Marchand’s rendition on the Library and Archives Canada website, The Virtual Gramophone:http://amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone-bin/Main/ItemDisplay?l=0&l_ef_l=-1&id=646469.467855&v=1&lvl=1&coll=24&rt=1&itm=31398151&rsn=S_WWWbia3BLUZs&all=1&dt=AW+|j%27ai|+AND+|tant|+AND+|dans%E9|&spi=-

Last night I went dancing; I got my shoes full of holes; I went to the shoemaker and asked if he would repair my shoes in exchange for five cents; he replied that five cents was insufficient and that a kiss was required as well.

VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.

Hier au soir j’ai ete hein hein dancer

Hier au soir j’ai été danser

Le Soulier décousu I, K-2

Le cordonnier et la jeune fille qui a trop dansé 1828

Last Night I Went Dancing

Hier au soir j’ai été hein hein dancer

Hier au soir j’ai ete hein hein dancer
J’en ai tout perde mes … souliers
Que faluron Luron Lurette Lure
Je m’en vais chez le cordonnier 2 fois
P’tit cordonnier p’tit cord hein hein
Veut-tu racommoder mes souliers je te donnerai
5 sous marque
5 sous marquee n’est pas assez
Un doux baiser par dessous le marche
Mon pendu taine
Premier son de mes noces

Chantons la bergere joliment o gay
Rancons la bergere joliment
Que le plancher en ranfle