The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30720   Message #396421
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
12-Feb-01 - 01:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Trois Navires
Subject: RE: Help: Trois Navires
Should have known I wouldn't get away with it!  SO: the only written tune I have is a Canadian one fitted to a rather different French text (it may well be much the same as the version Sorcha linked to, which I've never heard), but I've found one on record which has virtually the same words as the two I linked to above, so I've made a midi from that and will include it in the batch I'm sending to Alan.  It's a French version, collected in Haute-Normandie (Seine Maritime) by Michel Colleu from Captain Vedieu (Saint-Pierre-en-Port, 1974) and M. Cuvier (Eletot, 1976).  Information from the notes accompanying Stand To Yer Ground -"The Shanty Crew" (Screw Productions PROP 1885A, 1989).

A brief correction to the two versions I mentioned: "toiles d'été" ("summer linens" -perhaps at a pinch "summer sails")in the Forum and "voiles d'ete" ("summer sails") in the DT should be voiles d'étai ("stayails").

Malcolm