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Les montagnards (MS2011-3223-047)
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…
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Marie Calumet (MS2011-3223-046)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-046 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 38.“Marie Calumet” (“Marie Calumet”). This song appears to originate in Quebec; there are no documented versions from France.…
Position: 1233 (625 views)
La poule a Colin (MS2011-3223-045)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-045 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 38.“La poule à Colin” (“Colin’s Hen”). This French traditional song has been most widely collected in Quebec, as well as…
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Quand j’etais chez mon pere apprenti pastouriau (MS2011-3223-044)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-044 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 37.“Quand j’étais chez mon père, apprenti pastouriau”(“When I Lived at my Father’s as an Apprentice-Shepherd”). This…
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La Cantiniere (MS2011-3223-043)
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…
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J’ai tant dansé (MS2011-3223-042)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-042 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 36.“J’ai tant dansé” (“I Danced so Much”). This much-sung French ronde has been in circulation in France at least since the…
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Au bois du Rossignolet (MS2011-3223-041)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-041 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 35.“Au bois du rossignolet” (“In the Woods of the Nightingale”). This venerable French song has been in circulation since the…
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Veillee Rustique (MS2011-3223-040)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-041 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 35.“Veillée rustique” (“Rustic Evening Party”). Versions of this traditional French song, most commonly known as “La destinée,…
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Le petit Cordonnier (MS2011-3223-039)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-039 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 34.‘Le petit Cordonnier” (“The Little Shoemaker”). This text appears to be virtually identical to the setting of this song…
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Sur la route de Berthier (MS2011-3223-038)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-039 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 33.“Sur la route de Berthier” (“On the Road from Berthier”). This text appears to be virtually identical (with the exception of…
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C’est l’aviron (MS2011-3223-037)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-037 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 33.“C’est l’aviron” (“It’s the Oar”) is a version of a traditional French folk song which has been in circulation since at last…
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Vive la canadienne vole mon coeur vole vole vole (MS2011-3223-036)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-036 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 32.This is a transcription of St-Hyacinthe, Quebec author and Catholic abbé F. X. Burque’s ca. 1905 rewrite of a widely sung…
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Le petit avocat ((MS2011-3223-035))
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-035 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 31.“Le petit avocat” (“The Little Lawyer”) is a version of a traditional French song which has been in circulation since at…
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Alouette (MS2011-3223-034)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-034 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 31.“Alouette” (“Lark”). This venerable French traditional cumulative song and ronde has seen service since the 17th century,…
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A la Claire Fontaine (MS2011-3223-033)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-033 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 31.“A la claire fontaine” (“At the Clear Fountain”)’s an iconic traditional French ballad whose earliest known printed setting…
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En passant par la Lorraine (MS2011-3223-032)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-032 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 30.“En passant par la Lorraine” (“While Passing through Lorraine”) is a version of a French traditional song which has been in…
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Les filles de la Rochelle (MS2011-3223-031)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-031 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 29.“Les filles de la Rochelle” (“The Girls from la Rochelle”) is a version of a venerable French traditional song sometimes…
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Le petit mousse (MS2011-3223-030)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-030 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 28.“Le petit mousse” (“The Little Cabin Boy”). This is a fragmentary version of the French sentimental song, “Le petit mousse…
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Les cloches du Hameau (MS2011-3223-029)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-029 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 28.Les cloches du hameau (“The Church Bells of the Hamlet”) is the work of singer, composer, songwriter and poet, Albert…
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En automobile Batis pis Dora (MS2011-3223-028)
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-028 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 27.En automobile Batis pis Dora” (“In the Car, Baptiste and Dora”). The sexual undertone and racist-based humor of this text…
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