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Thread #5346   Message #893302
Posted By: masato sakurai
19-Feb-03 - 03:34 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'Take a City Bride' and 'Marie' (Cajun)
Subject: Lyr Add: MARIE
There's another version of "Marie" by Aldus Roger & Vernon Bergeron in Raymond E. François's Yé Yaille, Chère!: Traditional Cajun Dance Music (Swallow Publications, 1990, pp. 418-419; with music):

            MARI

(1 & 2: I can't forget you, baby. You knew that I loved you; you knew that I loved you, doll, since I was fourteen. Oh, Marie, doll, look what you've done; look at that. You're leaving, leaving your poor old lover, baby.)

Moi j'peu pas t'oublier, bébé.
Tu savais que moi j't'aimer;
tu savez que moi j't'aimer, catin,
depuis l'age de quatorze ans.

Oh, Marie, catin,
'garde donc ça t'as fait;
'garde donc t'après m'quitter,
'près quitter ton pauv' vieux nèg', bébé.

~Masato