Nous avons une fillette youp la la lalina (MS2011-3223-008)

Nous avons une fillette youp la la lalina (MS2011-3223-008)

Marie ta fille

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 Botrel’s turn-of-the-20th century popular song “Marie ta fille” (“Marry Off Your Daughter”). Born in Britanny, Botrel (1868-1925) rose to fame as a singer in Paris in the mid-1890s. He specialized in the composition of French-language songs set in Brittany which evoked sentimental scenes of love, old age, patriotism, prayers, and minor melodrama. Botrel made two concert tours to Quebec in 1903 and again in 1922, where his songs enjoyed considerable success in live performances, printed settings, and recordings. In 1922, Botrel recording a setting of this song at the Montreal studios of the Victor/His Master’s Voice label (issue # 26315, side A). You can hear Théodore Botrel’s recording of this son on Library and Archives Canada’s on-line website, The Virtual Gramophone: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/virtual-gramophone/Pages/Item.aspx?idNumber=1019403069

[refrain? Marry your son when you wish, your daughter, when it’s possible]; we have a young daughter who would very much like, poor thing, to marry as soon as possible; there are plenty of fellows in the village all pretty poor, I’d bet; they find her not rich to their their taste; For myself, when I met her mother, I wasted no time: I suit you, you suit me; I’ll marry you; stay, daughter, my poor Marie; I do not at all wish to put you into a lottery, nor escort you to market; a husband becomes a dream; the marrying kind are on strike; perhaps they will start a union.

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

Nous avons une fillette youp la la lalina

We Have a Young Daughter

Nous avons une fillette youp la la Lalina

Théodore Botrel

Théodore Botrel

Nous avons une fillette youp la la Lalina
Qui voudrait bien la pauvrette
Au plus tot s’y marier youp youp youp Lalirette au gay
Mari ton gas quand tu voudra ta fille quand tu pourra
Y a ben les gas du village
Tous quasi pauvret je gage
La trouve point riche a leur gre
Moi quand j’ont connu sa mere
Je n’ont point fait tant d’maniere
Je t’va tu m’va j’tepouserai
Reste fille ma pauvre marie
Je n’peut point t’mettre en loterie
Ni te conduire au marche

Un mari s’ d’vient un reve refrain
Les epouseux sont en greve
Ils vont peut etre se s’indiquer