The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #400   Message #11683
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
02-Sep-97 - 07:22 PM
Thread Name: Req/ADD: French folk songs
Subject: RE:
Isn't an "allouette" a nightingale? We don't have nightingales in Canada.

I'm sad to see that Youpi! Youpi!, that jolly and uptempo riverman's song , is not in there.

As for Cajun songs, the Balfour Brothers did many. I think Zachery Richard did as well. The Acadian group (as in French from the original Acadia; some got away or came back) used to do a song I always assumed was Cajun, called La Maudit Guerre (pardon my spelling) about the expulsion of the Acadians.