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Thread #62269 Message #3180783
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
03-Jul-11 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Où vas-tu, mon petit garçon? (Acadian)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Où vas-tu, mon petit garçon? (Acadian)
Monique, that sent me looking through my old records and I found the Mills-Baillargeon recording in the 9-LP set of "Canadian Folk Songs, A Centennial Collection" released in 1967. Hadn't looked at it in years.
The Note says: "In this old Acadian riddle-song, a seven-year old boy on his way to school is met by a "stranger" (presumably Satan in disguise) who seeks to confound the lad with a series of riddles. But the boy successfully answers all the riddles put to him by the passing stranger, and thus succeeds in escaping the trap." Side A, number one.