Les montagnards (MS2011-3223-047)
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Les montagnards (MS2011-3223-047)
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French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-047 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 39.
“Les montagnards” (“The Mountaineers”) is a song composed in 1832 by French violinist, poet, composer, conservatory director and chorale director Alfred Roland (1797-1874) titled “Tyrolienne des Pyrénées” (“Yodel of the Pyrenees”). Roland received a solid musical education at the Conservatoire de Paris, but worked professionally as a civil servant until the early 1830s when he moved to Bagnères-de-Bigorre in southwestern France. Impressed by the singing of his new compatriots, Roland founded a music conservatory and assembled a choir for whom he wrote a series of French-language songs celebrating the Pyrenees and its people, sometimes incorporating yodels and other vocal techniques from the local folk singing tradition. His choir gained immediate success in France and for seventeen years toured extensively in France and England, gathering funds for the poor. “Tyrolienne des Pyrénées” is his most celebrated song.
“Les montagnards” enjoyed some popularity in Quebec in the first half of the twentieth century. Montreal baritone, choir-master, and organist Joseph Saucier (1869-1941) made a 1910 recording of this song for the Columbia label at their New York studio (issue # E464; matrix # 8045); in 1920, a Montreal vocal group called Quatuor Canadien recorded a vocal quartet setting on the Victor label (issue # 263057, side A). The version in this collection is virtually identical to that published in the 1940s via La Bonne Chanson songbook series (vol.1, p.19) in the ten-booklet series published between 1938 and 1954), the work of Quebecois priest, musician, publisher, composer, and impresario abbé Charles-Émile Gadbois (1906-1981). You can hear Saucier’s recording at 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=1007621455
“Les montagnards” (“The Mountaineers”) is a song composed in 1832 by French violinist, poet, composer, conservatory director and chorale director Alfred Roland (1797-1874) titled “Tyrolienne des Pyrénées” (“Yodel of the Pyrenees”). Roland received a solid musical education at the Conservatoire de Paris, but worked professionally as a civil servant until the early 1830s when he moved to Bagnères-de-Bigorre in southwestern France. Impressed by the singing of his new compatriots, Roland founded a music conservatory and assembled a choir for whom he wrote a series of French-language songs celebrating the Pyrenees and its people, sometimes incorporating yodels and other vocal techniques from the local folk singing tradition. His choir gained immediate success in France and for seventeen years toured extensively in France and England, gathering funds for the poor. “Tyrolienne des Pyrénées” is his most celebrated song.
“Les montagnards” enjoyed some popularity in Quebec in the first half of the twentieth century. Montreal baritone, choir-master, and organist Joseph Saucier (1869-1941) made a 1910 recording of this song for the Columbia label at their New York studio (issue # E464; matrix # 8045); in 1920, a Montreal vocal group called Quatuor Canadien recorded a vocal quartet setting on the Victor label (issue # 263057, side A). The version in this collection is virtually identical to that published in the 1940s via La Bonne Chanson songbook series (vol.1, p.19) in the ten-booklet series published between 1938 and 1954), the work of Quebecois priest, musician, publisher, composer, and impresario abbé Charles-Émile Gadbois (1906-1981). You can hear Saucier’s recording at 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=1007621455
Abstract
Mountain-dweller sings the praises of his home.
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 montagnards
Tranlsated Title
The Mountaineers
First Line
Montagnes Pyrenees vous etes mes amours
Scribe
Composer
Alfred Roland
Lyricist
Alfred Roland
Transcription
1
Montagnes Pyrenees vous etes mes amours
Cabanes fortunes vous me plairez toujours
Rien n’est si beau que ma patrie rien ne plait tant a
Mon amie… montagnards o montagnards
Chantez en choeur chantez en choeurs de mon pays de mon
Pays la paix et le bonheur
Refrain
Halte-la halte la la halte la les montagnards les
Montagnards halete la halte la halte la les
Montagnards sont la les montagnards halte la halte la
Les montagnards sont la
2
Laisse la tes montagnes disant un etranger suis-moi dans
mes campagnes viens ne sois plus berger jamais jamais
quelle folie. Je suis heureux de cette vie. J’ai ma centure
j’ai ma ceinturee mon beret et mon beret mes
champs joyeux mes chants joyeux mamie et mon chalet
3
Cur la cirne argentee de ces pics orageux la nature
Indomptee favorise nos voeux ver les glaciers d’un
plomb j’atteins souvent l’ours intrepid
e sur les monts repetez plus d’une fois repetez j’ai deviance bis
la course du chamois
4
Déjà dans la vallee tout est silencieux la montagne
Voile se derobe a nos yeux on’entend plus dans la nuit
Sombre o montagnards repetez chantez plus bas bis
Therese dort therese dort
Ne la reveillez pas
Montagnes Pyrenees vous etes mes amours
Cabanes fortunes vous me plairez toujours
Rien n’est si beau que ma patrie rien ne plait tant a
Mon amie… montagnards o montagnards
Chantez en choeur chantez en choeurs de mon pays de mon
Pays la paix et le bonheur
Refrain
Halte-la halte la la halte la les montagnards les
Montagnards halete la halte la halte la les
Montagnards sont la les montagnards halte la halte la
Les montagnards sont la
2
Laisse la tes montagnes disant un etranger suis-moi dans
mes campagnes viens ne sois plus berger jamais jamais
quelle folie. Je suis heureux de cette vie. J’ai ma centure
j’ai ma ceinturee mon beret et mon beret mes
champs joyeux mes chants joyeux mamie et mon chalet
3
Cur la cirne argentee de ces pics orageux la nature
Indomptee favorise nos voeux ver les glaciers d’un
plomb j’atteins souvent l’ours intrepid
e sur les monts repetez plus d’une fois repetez j’ai deviance bis
la course du chamois
4
Déjà dans la vallee tout est silencieux la montagne
Voile se derobe a nos yeux on’entend plus dans la nuit
Sombre o montagnards repetez chantez plus bas bis
Therese dort therese dort
Ne la reveillez pas
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Citation
“Les montagnards (MS2011-3223-047),” Vermont Folklife Center Digital Collections, accessed April 29, 2025, https://vtfolklifearchive.org/collections/items/show/813.
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