S’il n’aime pas sa mere (MS2011-3222-003)

S’il n’aime pas sa mere (MS2011-3222-003)

Si il n’aime pas sa mère

French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-003 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 7-8.

Scope and Content Note:

Strophic song; three verses, two refrains (first refrain follows first verse; second refrain follows third verse).

"Si il n’aime pas sa mère" is a 1926 original song with lyrics and music composed by Quebecois songwriter, composer, pianist, and recording studio owner/producer Roméo Beaudry (1882-1932) for popular Montreal baritone Odilon Rochon. Beaudry was, along with his friend Herbert Berliner, the most important producer of Canadian artists in the first half of the 20th century. During the 1920s, Beaudry’s Montreal-based Starr studio produced 693 francophone records, featuring almost every great name in Quebec lyric, folk and variety song with equal success. produced songs with original lyrics and melodies as well as French-language translation of popular American hits of the era. In 1926, Rochon recorded this song for the Montreal-based Compo label (which now owned Starr); (issue # 15309; matrix # E2634): http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone-bin/Main/ItemDisplay?l=0&l_ef_l=-1&id=749700.205232&v=1&lvl=1&coll=24&rt=1&rsn=S_WWWriaGObtfo&all=1&dt=AW+|s%27il|+AND+|n%27aime|+AND+|pas|+AND+|sa|+AND+|mère|&spi=-&rp=1&vo=1

A lovely and innocent young Parisian woman welcomes men’s flirtations, believing (as the first refrain states) that love may bring both joy and sorrow but is worth the risk. She has a three-month love affair with a student which leaves her embittered and mistrustful (as stated in the final refrain, which reframes the sentiments of the first refrain).

VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.

MS2011-3222-003

S’il n’aime pas sa mere

Vous jeune filles a qui l’on fait la cour

Beaudry, Roméo

Beaudry, Roméo

1
Vous jeune filles a qui l’on fait la cour
A qui l’on jure d’eternelle serments
Esperez-vouz qu’il vous aime toujour
Celui qui n’a pas aimer sa maman

Refrain
S’il n’aime pas sa mere
C’est qu’il n’a pas de Coeur
Comment pourrait il faire
Un jour notre Bonheur
S’ilfa it couler des larmes
Des yeux de sa maman
Peut-il avoir quelques charmes
Pour votre coeur de vingt ans

2
Gardez vous bien
D’en prendre un pour epoux
Qui pour sa mere n’a pas de respect
Car bientot la vie serait pour vous
Que des elusions, larmes et regret

Fin