11 Feb 01 - 11:07 PM (#395990) Subject: Help: Trois Navires From: Shall Is there a Mudcatter in Newfoundland that can help me out? I am looking for the lyrics for Trois Navires,from French Newfoundland. |
11 Feb 01 - 11:11 PM (#395994) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Sorcha Hi Shall! I'm not from Newfie, but if you will click here you will find lyrics and translation, plus chords. See ya! |
11 Feb 01 - 11:15 PM (#395995) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Sorcha Dammit. One more time.........Trois Navires |
11 Feb 01 - 11:21 PM (#396002) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Sorcha Well, at least the link worked that time, sure locked up my machine.......had to do the Ctrl/Alt/Delete thing. Whoo ee. Scroll down on the page to find the chords. |
11 Feb 01 - 11:38 PM (#396015) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Shall Dear Sorcha, I had no idea that using this forum would be so awesome. Thank you, you are amazing and quick!I am thrilled. |
11 Feb 01 - 11:42 PM (#396016) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Shall Sorcha, Are you familier with Nightingale. Becky Tracy, Jeremiah McLane and Keith Murphy? |
12 Feb 01 - 12:00 AM (#396027) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Sorcha No, never heard of Nightingale.....and honey, that was a slow response. Took me 4 minutes to find it, and 4 more to get a good clikie.......obviously I missed an html code in my first try, but who knows why the link locked up my computer? Want me to look for Nightengale, or are they just a favorite of yours? Here at the 'Cat, we pride ourselves on the speed of the real answer.......and on the quality of dicussion regarding the Real Answer...... |
12 Feb 01 - 10:00 AM (#396244) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Malcolm Douglas You'll be expecting this from me, then. :) In France, this song is usually known as Le Bateau Chargé de Blé; there is another version (from France) in the DT: Roulez, Jeunes Gens, Roullez And a similar one in the Forum: A la Rochelle Malcolm |
12 Feb 01 - 10:09 AM (#396257) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Noreen *LOL*, Malcolm- we expect nothing less! Good one, Sorcha. Noreen |
12 Feb 01 - 10:16 AM (#396264) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: MMario Malcolm - you wouldn't happen to have the tune for ROULEZ, JEUNES GENS, ROULEZ! would you? Or is that one you've sent in that I missed? |
12 Feb 01 - 11:39 AM (#396325) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Noreen I dunno, Malcolm, you can never do enough for some peepl... LOL MMario! |
12 Feb 01 - 01:02 PM (#396421) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Malcolm Douglas Should have known I wouldn't get away with it! SO: the only written tune I have is a Canadian one fitted to a rather different French text (it may well be much the same as the version Sorcha linked to, which I've never heard), but I've found one on record which has virtually the same words as the two I linked to above, so I've made a midi from that and will include it in the batch I'm sending to Alan. It's a French version, collected in Haute-Normandie (Seine Maritime) by Michel Colleu from Captain Vedieu (Saint-Pierre-en-Port, 1974) and M. Cuvier (Eletot, 1976). Information from the notes accompanying Stand To Yer Ground -"The Shanty Crew" (Screw Productions PROP 1885A, 1989). A brief correction to the two versions I mentioned: "toiles d'été" ("summer linens" -perhaps at a pinch "summer sails")in the Forum and "voiles d'ete" ("summer sails") in the DT should be voiles d'étai ("stayails"). Malcolm |
12 Feb 01 - 01:05 PM (#396427) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: MMario Thank you Malcolm! |
12 Feb 01 - 01:06 PM (#396428) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Malcolm Douglas er...staysails |
12 Feb 01 - 01:46 PM (#396466) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Shall Malcolm Douglas Thank you for your assistance. |
12 Feb 01 - 01:59 PM (#396477) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Shall Sorcha- I love the blue clicky thing. Nightingale is one of those groups that you don't get the opportunity to see enough of. Keith Murphy uses feet percussion, he is absolutely amazing to watch. The group has played at Glen Echo,in the Spanish Ballroom,there is some type of dance going on at Glen Echo almost every night. Nightingale played in Shepherdstown, WV a few years ago, the performance was up front and personnal. What I like about Nightingale is the variety of thier concerts covering Irish, Norwegian, Canadian, and some Swedish music. Jeremiah McLane plays the accordian, he can sing to me in French anytime! Becky Tracy is a beautiful fiddler,so smooth and with such expression in her bowing.Their CD Coming Dawn is excellant (from a fiddler's point of view)They are even better LIVE! |
12 Feb 01 - 04:15 PM (#396582) Subject: ADD: Trois Navires From: Joe Offer Hey, guys - please remember that it a song is in the folk genre or likely to be of interest to folk musicians, it's best to post the lyrics here, not just a link. -Joe Offer- Trois Navires de Blé
Lyrics, Translation, and Guitar ChordsThis charming song from "vielle Terre-Neuve" is Great Big Sea's first time recording in French, and we think that they did a fine job of it! The following translation resulted from the combined efforts of three American fans: Jen. from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Jane from Richmond, Virginia, and Fran from Boston, Massachusetts. Fran's guitar chords are at the bottom of the page.
Un gros coup de vent de nordet, (A heavy gust of wind from the northeast)
Trois filles d'un roi veulent marchander, (Three daughters from the king want to haggle)
La plus jeune avait l'pied léger, (The youngest [girl] was light on her feet)
Combien le vendez-vous votre blé, (How much do you sell your wheat for)
J'entends ma mère m'app'ler pour souper, (I hear my mother calling me for supper)
Ooh la belle vous mentez, (Ooh beauty you are lying)
Guitar Chords: The song is in chordpro format, to indicate where the chords change in relation to the lyrics. Chords are also included for the instrumental breaks, in case you have a fiddle or whistle player at your kitchen party. In the breaks, each chord lasts for one four beat measure except for chords that are connected with a hyphen, in which case they occur in the same measure and last for two beats each. Alan Doyle plays a 12-string guitar in this song, so you may notice that a six-string sounds less full. He tends to use a four-finger G chord (320033) in the verses, though a three-finger G (320003) may be substituted. Gadd9 = 320203 Note to whistle players: the song is in the key of G, so play it on a common D whistle and use C-natural, not C-sharp.
intro:[G] [Gadd9]
Trois [G]filles d'un roi veulent marchander, nous i[Am]rons jouer sur le bord de l'eau
La [G]plus jeune avait l'pied léger, nous i[Am]rons jouer sur le bord de l'eau
Combi[G]en le vendez-vous votre blé, nous i[Am]rons jouer sur le bord de l'eau
J'en[G]tends ma mère m'app'ler pour souper, nous i[Am]rons jouer sur le bord de l'eau
Oo[G]ooh la belle vous mentez, nous i[Am]rons jouer sur le bord de l'eau Copied from GBS Boston home |
12 Feb 01 - 05:04 PM (#396617) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Shall Thanks Joe. |
12 Feb 01 - 05:21 PM (#396627) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Sorcha (I was just feeling lazy, Joe. Sorry) |
12 Feb 01 - 06:12 PM (#396664) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Homeless I'll attest to Nightingale's excellence. They play a mean contradance set too. |
12 Feb 01 - 08:24 PM (#396751) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Malcolm Douglas And what tune do "Great Big Sea" use? |
24 Sep 04 - 10:13 AM (#1279953) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires de Ble From: ToulouseCruise Here's a new question to this old thread, plus a little info... Malcolm had asked three years (!) ago what tune GBS uses... you can hear a clip of it on the AMG All Music Guide site (www.allmusic.com) if you search for that song -- you do need to register first to use the site, but it gives a great deal of background info on bands, and often a review of some of their albums.... My question is... what are the origins of this song? is it originally from France, as some of the above comments imply? Brian. |
24 Sep 04 - 03:09 PM (#1280225) Subject: Lyr Add: LE BATEAU CHARGÉ DE BLÉ and BEAU MARINIER From: Q (Frank Staplin) Several French websites have comments on "Le bateau chargé de blé" They conclude that it is a Quebec song. Source of the version below: Conrad Laforte, "Chansons de facture médiévale...," Tome 1, p. 403, reproduced at this website, http://mapage.noos.fr/rassat/textes_27/Le_bateau.html Le bateau charge de ble Lyr. Add: LE BATEAU CHARGÉ DE BLÉ Chargés d'avoin', chargés de blé; Trois dam's s'en vont les marchander. -Marchand, marchand, combien ton blé? -Trois francs l'avoin', six francs le blé. -C'est bien trop cher d'un bonn' moitié. -Montez mesdam's, vous le verrez. Marchand, tu n'vendras pas ton blé. -Si je l'vends pas, je le donn'rai. -A ce prix, on va s'arranger. A very interesting article, LA CHANSON TRADITIONNELLE DU DÉTROIT, says this about the song: "Par exemple, la chanson en laisse Le bateau chargé de blé (1.F.21), gé'néralement connue au Canada français sous la forme 'À Saint-Malo, beau port de mer,' ètait chantée tout le long de le rivière Détroit sous une forme beaucoup mieux connu en France. Voici la version de Mme Stella Meloche, née en 1902 à l'Ile aux Dindes, en plein milieu de la rivière Détroit" [sung by Mme Stella Meloche, (Turkey Isle?) Detroit River: Lyr. Add: BEAU MARINIER (MB 404.12c) Dans mon chemin j'ai rencontré Trois jolies fill's parfaites en beauté. Beau marinier, beau marinier, Comment vendez vous votre blé? Rentrez mamzell's, vous le saurez, Car s'il vous plait, vous 'n achèterez. Car-e ma foi, je donn'rais cent sous Pour passer le mer avec vous. La plus jeun' qui a le pied Légèr', Dedans la barqu' fut embarquée. Ell' ne fut pas le pied dedans, Le beau galant mit les voiles au vent. Eh è terre, è terre, beau marinier, Je suis la fill' d'un officier. -Quand mêm' tu s'rais fille du roi, Tu vas passer le mer avec-que moi. Eh è terre, è terre, beau marinier, Mes anneaux d'or, j'te donnerai. -Ah ni pour or, ni pour argent, Je ne crains pas le maître du vent. Et je voudrais que ce marinier, Drett' dans le mer, il fut jeté. J'engagerais ses beaux habits, Je m'en mais tout droit à Paris. Tout le mond' qui me voirait venir, Dirait: - V'lâ l'capitain du vaisseau. Translation? |
24 Sep 04 - 03:18 PM (#1280232) Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires From: Q (Frank Staplin) The article about Detroit: http://www.mnemo.qc.ca/html/2001(49).html Le repertoire de la riviere Detroit Unfortunately, this Canadian article on the founding of Detroit and the folksongs of the Detroit River is all in French. Perhaps someone will help with a translation. |
25 Sep 04 - 04:22 PM (#1280953) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trois Navires From: Q (Frank Staplin) refresh |
25 Sep 04 - 11:40 PM (#1281156) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trois Navires From: Joe Offer Q your "Ile aux Dindes" is shown on this page (see map). I think it's the island currently known as "Fighting Island." It's on the Canadian side of the river, across from Grosse Ile, an American military base. When I was a kid, I wondered if the Canadians fought the Americans on that island. Since I had ancestors from both sides of the river, I wasn't sure which side should have won. -Joe Offer- |