No Lyric or tune source, but "Let The Good Times Roll"- Pat Nyhan, Brian Rollins & David Babb (Upbeat Books 1997) provides a good overview of all Cajun & Zydeco records available at the time.

"Musiciens cadiens et creoles-The Makers Of Cajun Music"-Barry Jean
Ancelet & Elemore Morgan Jr. (U of texas Press 1984) gives an overview of the culture and important individual musicians in both English and French with excellent photography, as well.

But as for lyrics, Arhoolie, one of the major labels putting out the music, usually had both French and English lyrics included on the LPs and, if not, an address to send for them if needed printed on the jacket/booklet.

Folkways/Smithsonian Folkways always include booklets with liner notes and lyrics and you can order extra copies of them, as I've done for yard sale records aquired without their booklets inside.
And the whole Folkways catalog remains in print and is therefore available.

Google Marc Savoy, who has a instrument shop outside of Eunice and he'd probably have books or knowledge of where to find them.

Floyd's Record Shop
Post Drawer 10
Ville Platte, LA 70586
....is a mail order source for Cajun Recordings


Try:

The music page of New Orleans, Louisiana-A Virtual Library http://www.satchmo.com/nolavl/nomusic.html
(Having trouble making a cliky, but the site works)

The other sites from a bibliography didn't.


Happy hunting,
Severn