Com C’a ((MS2011-3223-017))
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Title
Com C’a ((MS2011-3223-017))
Alternative Title
Comm’ ça
Subject
Description
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 Sirois (1889-1974), usually titled “Comm’ ça.” Sirois was a colleague of Montreal singer Charles Marchand (1890-1930), who 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. In 1926, Marchand recorded a setting of this song in the New York City studios of the Brunswick label (index # 3391). In 1927, he recorded a second version for the Edison label’s 58000 French Canadian series (index # 11511; matrix # 58026-R). That same year, the Montreal monthly musical journal La Lyre published a sheet music setting of “Comm’ ça,” which includes references to the Brunswick recording, as well as a recording on the Montreal-based Starr label (index # 15271). You can see this edition of La Lyre (which also includes a text by Maurice Morisset about the folk song revival in Quebec, and which prominently features Charles Marchand) on the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec:
http://collections2.banq.qc.ca/jrn03/lyre/src/1927/vol.005/no.051/159686_05_51.pdf
“Comm’ ça” (“Like This”) is a ca. 1926 popular French-Canadian song with words and music by Montreal songwriter Lucien Sirois (1889-1974), usually titled “Comm’ ça.” Sirois was a colleague of Montreal singer Charles Marchand (1890-1930), who 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. In 1926, Marchand recorded a setting of this song in the New York City studios of the Brunswick label (index # 3391). In 1927, he recorded a second version for the Edison label’s 58000 French Canadian series (index # 11511; matrix # 58026-R). That same year, the Montreal monthly musical journal La Lyre published a sheet music setting of “Comm’ ça,” which includes references to the Brunswick recording, as well as a recording on the Montreal-based Starr label (index # 15271). You can see this edition of La Lyre (which also includes a text by Maurice Morisset about the folk song revival in Quebec, and which prominently features Charles Marchand) on the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec:
http://collections2.banq.qc.ca/jrn03/lyre/src/1927/vol.005/no.051/159686_05_51.pdf
Abstract
Along the St-Dominique farm road on a lovely night, Marjorique, a really good guy, went to see Phonsine whom he adored; once there, he affected poise, saying: good evening, mademoiselle; they sat on the rocker together; how happy you make me when you speak to me like that; the fact is that I need to say that I am looking for a pretty little wife who would adore me; I think I read in your soul that this would work out well; but what will your father say; I’m poor; well, Dominique, I think otherwise; money is quite magical, but it disappears like that; to make a good home together one must love one another; for his Phonsine [the father] dreams of a big shot.
Source
VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
Song Item Type Metadata
Supplied Title
Com C’a
Standard Title
Comme ça
Tranlsated Title
Like This
First Line
Dans le rang St-Dominique
Scribe
Lyricist
Lucien Sirois
Transcription
Dans le rang St Dominique
Par un beau soir com c’a
S’en allait marjour que un vrai bon garcon com c’a
Voir la demoiselle Phonsine qu’il cherissait com c’a
Qu’il la trouvait donc fine il le disait com c’a 3 fois
En arrivant chez elle ils se gourmait com c’a rait com c’a bonsoir mademoiselle qu’il murmur
Tous deux sur la berceuse il se bercait com c’a
Que vous me rendez heureuse
Quand vous me jasez comme ca
3
C’est que mamzelle Phonsine je vous dirai com c’a
Qu’un grand secret un taquine je n’peut rester com c’a
4
Je cherche une belle petite femme qui m’cherirait com c’a
Je crois lui en votre ame qu’on cirait bien com c’a
5
Mais que dira votre pere d’un beau projet com c’a
Je craind qu j’e l’exaspere moi pauvre geux com c’a
A ben mon Dominique moi je pense pas com c’a
L’argent c’est ben magique mais sa s’en va com c’a
Pour faire un bon ménage il faut s’aimer com c’a
Pour sa Phonsine il reve qu’en que gros Richard com c’a
Par un beau soir com c’a
S’en allait marjour que un vrai bon garcon com c’a
Voir la demoiselle Phonsine qu’il cherissait com c’a
Qu’il la trouvait donc fine il le disait com c’a 3 fois
En arrivant chez elle ils se gourmait com c’a rait com c’a bonsoir mademoiselle qu’il murmur
Tous deux sur la berceuse il se bercait com c’a
Que vous me rendez heureuse
Quand vous me jasez comme ca
3
C’est que mamzelle Phonsine je vous dirai com c’a
Qu’un grand secret un taquine je n’peut rester com c’a
4
Je cherche une belle petite femme qui m’cherirait com c’a
Je crois lui en votre ame qu’on cirait bien com c’a
5
Mais que dira votre pere d’un beau projet com c’a
Je craind qu j’e l’exaspere moi pauvre geux com c’a
A ben mon Dominique moi je pense pas com c’a
L’argent c’est ben magique mais sa s’en va com c’a
Pour faire un bon ménage il faut s’aimer com c’a
Pour sa Phonsine il reve qu’en que gros Richard com c’a
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Citation
“Com C’a ((MS2011-3223-017)),” Vermont Folklife Center Digital Collections, accessed May 25, 2025, https://vtfolklifearchive.org/collections/items/show/783.
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