Les cloches du Hameau (MS2011-3223-029)
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Les cloches du Hameau (MS2011-3223-029)
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Description
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-029 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 28.
Les cloches du hameau (“The Church Bells of the Hamlet”) is the work of singer, composer, songwriter and poet, Albert Larrieu (b. Perpignan, France 1872, d. 1925). It is one of a hundred or so songs with sympathetic and amusing texts about customs and practices in France and French Canada at the turn of the 20th century.
Larrieu, like all Frenchmen of his era, completed his military service and then moved to Paris where he formed, with guitarist Farrail and singer Deirieu the Trio Montmartrois. The trio renamed itself Le Trio Concarnois during their summers in Bretagne.
Larrieu rejoined the military at the beginning of WWI. In 1916, health problems returned him to civilian life, and he left for the United States. In 1917, he appeared in Canada: in Acadie, in Ontario, in western Canada, and especially in Quebec. He lived there for five and a half years and was greatly admired by French-speaking Canadians, who formed his principal audience, and whose affection he returned. In 1922, he made his farewell to North America, having penned some sixty songs, and returned to France where he died in obscurity in 1925 at the age of 53.
In 1929, the vocal quartet Les Troubadours de la Gatineau (a group of singers from the Ottawa/Hull region on the Quebec/Ontario border who worked with singer Charles Marchand) recorded this song on the Brunswick label. You can hear a 1941 recording of this song from the “Chantez la Bonne chanson” series sung by Roland Van de Goor and Albert Viau on the Victor/Bluebird label (issue # B-1192, side A) at Library and Archives Canada’s website, The Virtual Gramophone: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/virtual-gramophone/Pages/Item.aspx?idNumber=1007643024
Les cloches du hameau (“The Church Bells of the Hamlet”) is the work of singer, composer, songwriter and poet, Albert Larrieu (b. Perpignan, France 1872, d. 1925). It is one of a hundred or so songs with sympathetic and amusing texts about customs and practices in France and French Canada at the turn of the 20th century.
Larrieu, like all Frenchmen of his era, completed his military service and then moved to Paris where he formed, with guitarist Farrail and singer Deirieu the Trio Montmartrois. The trio renamed itself Le Trio Concarnois during their summers in Bretagne.
Larrieu rejoined the military at the beginning of WWI. In 1916, health problems returned him to civilian life, and he left for the United States. In 1917, he appeared in Canada: in Acadie, in Ontario, in western Canada, and especially in Quebec. He lived there for five and a half years and was greatly admired by French-speaking Canadians, who formed his principal audience, and whose affection he returned. In 1922, he made his farewell to North America, having penned some sixty songs, and returned to France where he died in obscurity in 1925 at the age of 53.
In 1929, the vocal quartet Les Troubadours de la Gatineau (a group of singers from the Ottawa/Hull region on the Quebec/Ontario border who worked with singer Charles Marchand) recorded this song on the Brunswick label. You can hear a 1941 recording of this song from the “Chantez la Bonne chanson” series sung by Roland Van de Goor and Albert Viau on the Victor/Bluebird label (issue # B-1192, side A) at Library and Archives Canada’s website, The Virtual Gramophone: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/virtual-gramophone/Pages/Item.aspx?idNumber=1007643024
Abstract
the church bells of the hamlet sing across the countryside; the sound of the pipes enlivens the mountains; you can hear the shepherds and shepherdesses singing on the plains the refrains which charm their friends[refrain]; it’s the end of the day and the young shepherdess returns home and one hears [refrain]; when stormy weather hits, around the old fireplace, is sung [refrain].
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
Les cloches du Hameau
Tranlsated Title
The Church Bells of the Hamlet
First Line
Les cloches du hameau chantent dans la campagne
Scribe
Composer
Albert Larrieu
Lyricist
Albert Larrieu
Transcription
Les cloches du hameau chantent dans la campagne
Le son du chalumeau egaye la montagne
On entend on entend les bergers les bergers
Chanter dans les prairies ces refrains si leger
Qui charment leur amis tra la la tra la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la la la la tra la la tra la la
La la la tra la la la la la la la la la
2
C’est l’heure du retour et la jeune bergere voyant la fin du jour
Regagne sa chaumiere on entend on entend
Refrain
3
Lorsque dans le rocher la tempete tourmente
Autour du vieux foyer joyeusement l’on chante
Le son du chalumeau egaye la montagne
On entend on entend les bergers les bergers
Chanter dans les prairies ces refrains si leger
Qui charment leur amis tra la la tra la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la la la la tra la la tra la la
La la la tra la la la la la la la la la
2
C’est l’heure du retour et la jeune bergere voyant la fin du jour
Regagne sa chaumiere on entend on entend
Refrain
3
Lorsque dans le rocher la tempete tourmente
Autour du vieux foyer joyeusement l’on chante
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Citation
“Les cloches du Hameau (MS2011-3223-029),” Vermont Folklife Center Digital Collections, accessed December 5, 2025, https://vtfolklifearchive.org/collections/items/show/795.
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