Boum badiboum badiba tra la la (MS2011-3223-015)

Boum badiboum badiba tra la la (MS2011-3223-015)

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 date of the earliest known printing. It has been widely documented in France and Quebec, as well as Belgium, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Indiana.

I have a wicked mother who every morning wakes me and sends me to fetch water at the fountain; along the road I met a kind horseman, we sat on a rock and began to talk; what will I tell my mother about my returning so late; you will tell her that the fountain was murky.

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

Boum badiboum badiba tra la la

La fille à la fontaine avant soleil levé, I-I-19

La fille à la fontaine avant soleil levé I705

J’ai une méchante mère qui tous les matins me fait lever

J’ai une mechante mere qui tous les matins me fait lever
Elle m’envoie a la fontaine
Pour aller de l’eau chercher
Dans mon chemin rencontre
Un gentil cavalier
Assis sur une pierre nous nous mimes a jucer
Que dirai-je a ma mere pour avoir autant tarde
Vous direz a votre mere que la fontaine etait brouillee