Ma mignonne (MS2011-3223-025)

Ma mignonne (MS2011-3223-025)

French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-025 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 23.

“Ma mignonne” (“My Pretty One”) is a traditional French cumulative song which in Quebec is commonly associated with the refrain which opens “mes souliers sont rouge, ma mignonne” (“my shoes are red, my pretty one”). Like many cumulative traditional songs, its documentary history is relatively recent (earliest printed versions date to the turn of the 1900s), but its widespread circulation in France, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Louisiana, the Guernsey Islands, and Switzerland suggests that it dates back to a much earlier period.

[refrain: my shoes are red, my pretty one, my pretty one; my shoes are red, my pretty one, my loves]; if I had the handsome shoes which my sweetheart gave to me; my shoes of paper, my buckles of steel; [the subsequent lines go on listing other articles of clothing: socks of tobacco, pants like boots]

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

Ma mignonne

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My Pretty One

Si j’avais les beaux souliers (que la mignonne repetez

Si j’avais les beaux souliers (que la mignonne repetez
Si j’avais les beaux soulier que la mignonne m’a donne

Refrain
Mes souliers de papier mes boucles d’acier
Mes couliers sont rouge (ma mignonne repetez
Mes souliers sont rouge ma mignonne mes amours

2
Si j’avais les beaux bas que la
Mignonne repetez si j’avais les beaux bas
que la mignonne m’a donne
Mes bas de tabac, mes souliers de papier, mes boucle d’acier

3
Si j’avais les belles culottes que ma mignonne
ma mignonne ma mignonne
mes culottes comte bottes, mes bats de tabac
mes souliers de papier, mes boucles d’acier
mes couliers sont rouge ma mignonne
mes amours