La Cantiniere (MS2011-3223-043)
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Title
La Cantiniere (MS2011-3223-043)
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Description
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-043 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 37.
“La Cantinière” (“The Canteen Waitress”) is a transcription of part of an enumerative song which appears in La Bonne Chanson (vol. 5, p. 208), the ten-booklet series published between 1938 and 1954) by Quebecois priest, musician, publisher, composer, and impresario abbé Charles-Émile Gadbois (1906-1981). Although an antecedent printed source has yet to be found, the text of this song is very likely a thoroughly sanitized reworking of a probably bawdy French military song of the 19th century. The melody of the verse is borrowed from a well-known French traditional dance song which dates back at least to the early 17th century and is commonly titled “La boulangère a des écus.”
“La Cantinière” (“The Canteen Waitress”) is a transcription of part of an enumerative song which appears in La Bonne Chanson (vol. 5, p. 208), the ten-booklet series published between 1938 and 1954) by Quebecois priest, musician, publisher, composer, and impresario abbé Charles-Émile Gadbois (1906-1981). Although an antecedent printed source has yet to be found, the text of this song is very likely a thoroughly sanitized reworking of a probably bawdy French military song of the 19th century. The melody of the verse is borrowed from a well-known French traditional dance song which dates back at least to the early 17th century and is commonly titled “La boulangère a des écus.”
Abstract
[refrain: one! two! Forward march the canteen waitress]; the canteen waitress has beautiful shoes, that depends on our officers, our commanders are military men, long live the pretty canteen waitress; the canteen waitress is in a good mood; that depends on our gay singers, our gay singers are military men, long live the pretty canteen waitress.
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
La Cantiniere
Tranlsated Title
The Canteen Waitress
First Line
La cantiniere a d’beaux souliers repeter
Scribe
Transcription
La cantiniere a d’beaux souliers repeter
Cela depend d’nos officiers repeter
Nos officiers sont militaries vive la jolie cantinieres
On deux en avant la cantiniere la cantiniere regiment repeater
2
La cantiniere a de bon gants repetez
Cela depend de nos commandants repetez
Nos commandants sont militaire
Vive la jolie cantiniere un -- deux en avant
Refrain
3
La cantiniere est d’bonne humeur repetez
Cela depend de nos gais chanteurs (bis)
Nos gais chanteur sont militaire vive la jolie
Cantiniere un deux en avant la cantiniere
Cela depend d’nos officiers repeter
Nos officiers sont militaries vive la jolie cantinieres
On deux en avant la cantiniere la cantiniere regiment repeater
2
La cantiniere a de bon gants repetez
Cela depend de nos commandants repetez
Nos commandants sont militaire
Vive la jolie cantiniere un -- deux en avant
Refrain
3
La cantiniere est d’bonne humeur repetez
Cela depend de nos gais chanteurs (bis)
Nos gais chanteur sont militaire vive la jolie
Cantiniere un deux en avant la cantiniere
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Citation
“La Cantiniere (MS2011-3223-043),” Vermont Folklife Center Digital Collections, accessed December 5, 2025, https://vtfolklifearchive.org/collections/items/show/809.
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