Prendre un verre de biere mon minou (MS2011-3223-051)

Prendre un verre de biere mon minou (MS2011-3223-051)

French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-051 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 51.

“Prendre un verre de bière, mon minou” (“Have a Glass of Beer, Sweetie”). The earliest known appearance of this Québécois original song is a ca. 1949 recording with this title, on the Starr/Compo label (issue # 16875, side A), performed by the Pierre Girard Trio (Pierre Girard, violin, George Houde, guitar, and possibly Roméo Perusse on vocals). This song is most closely associated with La famille Soucy (Isidore Soucy and his family orchestra), who recorded a 78rpm recording of this song in 1950 for the RCA Victor/Bluebird label (matrix number #55-5363A). Fernando Soucy is generally credited as the composer of this song, although the provenance and date of the Pierre Girard trio recording remain to be resolved.

refrain: have a glass of beer, my sweetie; have a glass of beer right through; you take a glass, you don’t give me any; I treat you so nicely, give me a little]; life is awful, full of regrets, to make it happy, we have to drink a little; drunk last night, drunk the night before, drunk again yesterday, drunk all the time; I heard tell, don’t know if it is true, that a man who drinks beer does not need a cup; my wife is shocked and she beats me; when I awoke, I said to her.

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

Prendre un verre de biere mon minou

Prendre un verre de bière, mon minou

Have a Glass of Beer, Sweetie

Prendre un verre de biere mon minou

1
Prendre un verre de biere mon minou
La vie est affreuse remplie de chagrin
Pour la rendre heureuse il faut boire un petit brin

Refrain
Prendre un verre de biere mon minou
Prendre un verre de biere riglit throo
Tu prend un verre tu m’en donne pas
Je te fait des belles facons je te chante des belles chancons
Donne-moi z’en dort

2
Soul hier su soir soul le soir d’avant
Soul encore hier soul tout le temp le refrain

3
J’ai entendue dire je s’ai pas si c’est vrai
Qu’un home qui prend de la biere n’a pas besoin de goblet
Refrain

4
Ma femme s’es choque puis elle m’a battu
Quand je me suis reveille je lui ai repondu