J’ai tant dansé (MS2011-3223-042)

J’ai tant dansé (MS2011-3223-042)

French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-042 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 36.

“J’ai tant dansé” (“I Danced so Much”). This much-sung French ronde has been in circulation in France at least since the first half of the 1600s. Versions have been widely documented in France and Quebec as well as in Belgium, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Ontario, Rhode Island, and Switzerland. This particular text is virtually identical to that published in abbé Charles-Émile Gadbois’s 1948 publication, Les 100 plus belles chansons (p. 65). Another version of this song appears earlier in this manuscript under the title “Hier au soir j’ai ete dancer.” In 1925, Montreal singer Charles Marchand recorded a version of this song under the title “J’ai tant danse, j’ai tant saute” for the Starr/Gennett label (issue # 15221; matrix # 1795). Marchand (1890-1930) 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. You can hear Marchand’s rendition on the Library and Archives Canada website, The Virtual Gramophone: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/virtual-gramophone/Pages/Item.aspx?idNumber=1007647373

[refrain: let’s dance so nicely, my shepherdess, that the floor gives way]; I danced so much, I jumped so much, that my shoes came apart; I found the shoemaker and asked if he would repair my shoe and offered him a penny; he said that it was not enough; what’s needed is to find the priest so that in a month I can marry you; a month it is not long enough; we’ll have to wait a year longer.

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

J’ai tant danse

Le soulier décousu. 1, K-2

Le cordonnier et la jeune fille qui a trop dansé 1828

I Danced so Much

J’ai tant danse j’ai tant sauté dansons ma bergere

J’ai tant danse j’ai tant sauté dansons ma bergere
Oh gai j’en ai de cousu mon soulier a l’ombre
Dansons ma bergere joliment que le plancher en rompe

3
J’ai te trouver le cordonnier. Dansons ma bergere o gai
Beau cordonnier beau cordonnier a l’ombre
4 Veut tu racc’mmoder mon soulier
5 Je te donnerai un sou marquee
6 De sous marque j’en ai z assez a l’ombre
7 De sous marques j’en ai z assez faut aller trouver le cure
8 Pour dans un mois vous marier
9 n’en ni un mois n’est pas assez
10 faut m’attendre encore une annee

Mon pere n’avait fille que moi repetez
Encore sur la mer il m’envoie
Refrain marie Madeleine son p’tit jupon de laine
Sa petite robe carreau tee son p’tit jupon pique