Dans le bon vieux temp (MS2011-3222-036)
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Title
Dans le bon vieux temp (MS2011-3222-036)
Alternative Title
Dans le bon vieux temps
Ma Normandie
Subject
Description
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-036 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 63-65.
Strophic song; refrain, followed by 3 verses with refrain after each verse.
“Dans le bon vieux temp” [“Dans le bon vieux temps”; “In the Good Old Days”] is a ca. 1928 song with words by Montreal singer, songwriter, actor, concert impresario, and jack-of-all-trades Conrad Gauthier, set to the melody of the 1836 French patriotic song “Ma Normandie” [“My Normandy”].
Gauthier (1885-1964) was at various times a director silent movies, a journalist, an accountant, and a municipal officer, but it was as a singer and actor that he made his name in Canada and the United States. In the 1920s, Gauthier was a pioneer in radio and in the recording of Quebec folk music, making 78s of more than 100 songs and monologues for the Victor and Columbia labels, often with Elzéar Hamel. He also was a concert impresario and lead vocalist at the immensely popular Veillées du bon vieux temps, a theatrical show featuring skits, songs, dances, and monologues evoking rural Quebec traditions, music, and dances. Gauthier founded the Veillées in 1921 and produced them until 1941 at the Monument national theatre in Montreal.
“Ma Normandie” [“My Normandie”] is a patriotic song about the Normandy region of France composed in 1836 by French singer-songwriter Frédéric Bérat (1801-1855) of Sainte-Adresse à Rouen. The song gained tremendous celebrity throughout France in the 1800s and is today widely used as the unofficial hymn of Normandie by residents there.
Conrad Gauthier and Béatrice Lapierre-Latour recorded “Dans le bon vieux temps” for the Montreal Victor label in 1928 (issue # 263513, side A); that same year, Vermont-born Montreal singer, storyteller and actor Eugène Daignault (1895-1960) and his wife recorded this song for rival Montreal label Compo/Starr (issue # 15438; matrix # 3255). Daignault was one of the stars of Gauthier’s Veillées du bon vieux temps troupe. You can hear the Daignaults’ recording on the Library and Archives Canada website, The Virtual Gramophone: http://amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone-bin/Main/ItemDisplay?l=0&l_ef_l=-1&id=821714.61829&v=1&lvl=1&coll=24&rt=1&itm=31398830
Strophic song; refrain, followed by 3 verses with refrain after each verse.
“Dans le bon vieux temp” [“Dans le bon vieux temps”; “In the Good Old Days”] is a ca. 1928 song with words by Montreal singer, songwriter, actor, concert impresario, and jack-of-all-trades Conrad Gauthier, set to the melody of the 1836 French patriotic song “Ma Normandie” [“My Normandy”].
Gauthier (1885-1964) was at various times a director silent movies, a journalist, an accountant, and a municipal officer, but it was as a singer and actor that he made his name in Canada and the United States. In the 1920s, Gauthier was a pioneer in radio and in the recording of Quebec folk music, making 78s of more than 100 songs and monologues for the Victor and Columbia labels, often with Elzéar Hamel. He also was a concert impresario and lead vocalist at the immensely popular Veillées du bon vieux temps, a theatrical show featuring skits, songs, dances, and monologues evoking rural Quebec traditions, music, and dances. Gauthier founded the Veillées in 1921 and produced them until 1941 at the Monument national theatre in Montreal.
“Ma Normandie” [“My Normandie”] is a patriotic song about the Normandy region of France composed in 1836 by French singer-songwriter Frédéric Bérat (1801-1855) of Sainte-Adresse à Rouen. The song gained tremendous celebrity throughout France in the 1800s and is today widely used as the unofficial hymn of Normandie by residents there.
Conrad Gauthier and Béatrice Lapierre-Latour recorded “Dans le bon vieux temps” for the Montreal Victor label in 1928 (issue # 263513, side A); that same year, Vermont-born Montreal singer, storyteller and actor Eugène Daignault (1895-1960) and his wife recorded this song for rival Montreal label Compo/Starr (issue # 15438; matrix # 3255). Daignault was one of the stars of Gauthier’s Veillées du bon vieux temps troupe. You can hear the Daignaults’ recording on the Library and Archives Canada website, The Virtual Gramophone: http://amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone-bin/Main/ItemDisplay?l=0&l_ef_l=-1&id=821714.61829&v=1&lvl=1&coll=24&rt=1&itm=31398830
Abstract
Elderly husband reminds his wife of their courtship back "in the good old days."
Source
VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
Song Item Type Metadata
Supplied Title
Dans le bon vieux temp
Tranlsated Title
In the Good Old Days
First Line
Dis moi le bon vieux temp
Lyricist
Gauthier, Conrad
Transcription
1
Dis moi le bon vieux temp
Sa se passais de meme
Sa se passais de meme
Dans le bon vieux temp
2
Je m’asseildais pres de la fournaise
Et bien emu je t’attendais
Toi qui placais toujour ta chaise
Pres de la miemme qu’a t’arrivais
Bien trop proche me disais maman
Qui tricottais en nous regardant
Refrain
3
Pendant que la mere piquais son somme
Avec son tricot sur ses genoux
Et que ton pereabile brave home
Fumais sa pipe cognais des clou
Moi je profitais de ce petit moment
Pour t’embrasse bien tendrement
Refrain
4
Tu m’embrassais vielle aisable
Et ta barbe me piquait le menton
De t’arrete j’etais pas capable
Pour dire franchement
Je trouvais ca bon
En se reveillant papa te chassais
Après trois jour tut e replantais
Refrain
Fin
Dis moi le bon vieux temp
Sa se passais de meme
Sa se passais de meme
Dans le bon vieux temp
2
Je m’asseildais pres de la fournaise
Et bien emu je t’attendais
Toi qui placais toujour ta chaise
Pres de la miemme qu’a t’arrivais
Bien trop proche me disais maman
Qui tricottais en nous regardant
Refrain
3
Pendant que la mere piquais son somme
Avec son tricot sur ses genoux
Et que ton pereabile brave home
Fumais sa pipe cognais des clou
Moi je profitais de ce petit moment
Pour t’embrasse bien tendrement
Refrain
4
Tu m’embrassais vielle aisable
Et ta barbe me piquait le menton
De t’arrete j’etais pas capable
Pour dire franchement
Je trouvais ca bon
En se reveillant papa te chassais
Après trois jour tut e replantais
Refrain
Fin
Files
Collection
Citation
“Dans le bon vieux temp (MS2011-3222-036),” Vermont Folklife Center Digital Collections, accessed July 9, 2025, https://vtfolklifearchive.org/collections/items/show/881.
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