The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113678   Message #3825006
Posted By: Joe Offer
07-Dec-16 - 05:59 AM
Thread Name: Robert Schmertz - songs and information?
Subject: ADD: Mon Petit Lapin (Robert Schmertz)
Not available at archive.org.
Luckily, I found it in the album notes at Smithsonian/Folkways.
http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW05258.pdf

Surely there must have been fine French chefs at Fort Duquesne ••• and this fellow, one of Bob Schmertz's "people", skillfully coaxed a little rabbit into a gourmet's rabbit stew for his commander.

MON PETIT LAPIN
(Robert Schmertz)

When Frenchmen lived at Fort Duquesne,
They lived as Frenchmen are inclined,
And in this valley trans-montaigne,
They sang, and they wined and they dined.

So here's a peu petite chanson
Of the Cuisiniere Militaire,
How he cooked at Fort Duquesne
In this valley trans-montaigne,
Un Grand Artiste Culinaire!

He will now prepare pour vous,
Un tres bon pot-a-feu, rabbit stew!

Mon Petit Lapin!
Dans la grande Cuisine, entrez, voulez-vous!
Mon Petit Lapin!
I have merveilleux plans for you!
Pour mon Capitaine,
Je l'arrange un melange entre nous!
Il exclame, Je t'adore!
Quelle affaire, quel amour!"
Mon petit, petit, joli lapin!

La-la-la -- pomme de terre!
La-la-la -- Haricot vert!
Celerie, les radis,
Garni just like in old Paris!

La-la-la -- beaucoup de vin!
"Fortunaire" jeune lapin!
Just a touch of garlic!
Un grand triomphe gastronomique!

Pour mon Capitaine,
Je l'arrange un melange entre nous!
Il exclame, "Je t'adore!
Quelle affaire, quel amour!"
Mon Petit, Petit, Joli Lapin!