Lyr. Add: Louis Camille
Massie Patterson and Lionel Belasco

Louis Camille, Où est-i Eligon passé?
Louis Camille, Où est-i Eligon passé?
Cas la monté, Cas la descend,
Cas la tombé en dleau,
Cas la monté, Cas la descend.
Cas la tombé en dleau.

Ou c'est tu mertrier,-
Et ou croire ou sorti chappé?
Ou c'est un mertrier
En la fin ou ni pou payé,
Ou c'est un mertrier-
Et ou croire sorti chappé?
Ou c'est un mertrier
En fin- ou ni pou payé!

Louis Camille, have you seen Eligon today?
Louis Camille, have you seen Eligon today?
When he called, he's nowhere near,
And so his case is closed.
When he is called, he's nowhere near,
And so his case is closed.

Where can the murd'rer be?
Can it be that he's run away?
Where can the murd'rer be?
Can it be that he won't have to pay?

Where can the murd'rer be?
Can it be that he's run away?
Where can the murd'rer be?
And now- he won't have to pay!

Sheet music, pp. 8-9, "Calypso Songs of the West Indies," Massie Patterson and Lionel Belasco, M. Baron Co. New York.

"These songs, though emanating from various parts of the West Indies, are, nevertheless, familiar to the natives of Trinidad, Barbados, Martinique, Guadalupe, Santa Lucia, etc." From Foreward by M. Baron.


English version by Olga Paul. Free transcription by Maurice Baron.
Copyright 1943, M. Baron Co.