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Thread #111629   Message #2353252
Posted By: lefthanded guitar
30-May-08 - 04:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Jambalaya
Subject: Lyr Req: Jambalaya
These are the words I got off the internet for this upbeat rolicking song, which I 'm hoping to share at a few song circles and one upcoming folk festival: Do these sound like the right words? And more importantly..whatever IS a piroque and MOST importantly , can anyone explain to me how to pronounce every French word in the song-
piroque, Thibodaux, Fontaineaux...sil vous plait.

muchos gracias...leftie

Good-bye Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

(Chorus)
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and file' gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

Thibodeaux, Fontainenot, the place is buzzin'
Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dress in style and go hog wild, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

(Chorus)
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and file' gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

Settle down, far from town, get me a pirogue
And I'll catch all the fish in the bayou
Swap my mon to buy Yvonne what she need-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

(Chorus)
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and file' gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou