Lyr Add: Bonsoir Dame (Bud Dashiell)

Subject: Lyr Add: Bonsoir Dame (Bud Dashiell)
From: BDenz
Date: 21 Apr 08 - 03:34 PM

This song has been stuck in my head since I first heard the first Bud and Travis album in 1959 (I was young but totally sucked into the music). Finally found the song online.

BONSOIR DAME (GOOD NIGHT MY LADY LOVE)
(Oliver "Bud" Dashiell)

In a green wood close to our village
A quiet pool lies still and deep
The evening sounds and forest birds
Have gently lulled my love to sleep

CHORUS:
Bonsoir Dame, Madame, Fais dodo
(Good Evening Dear, My Dear, go to sleep)
Bonsoir Dame, Madame, Fais dodo
(Good Evening Dear, My Dear, go to sleep)
Bonsoir Dame, Madame, Fais dodo
(Good Evening Dear, My Dear, go to sleep)
Bonsoir Dame, Madame, Fais dodo
(Good Evening Dear, My Dear, go to sleep)

Sing softly birds and don't awake her
She doesn't know how my heart aches
I've never dared to say "I love you"
I'll tell her now, before she wakes

CHORUS

Her pretty mouth is warm and smiling
She lies dreaming peacefully
I'd give my life to know for certain
That she would someday dream of me

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
Fais dodo, petite fille
(Go to sleep, little lady)
Smile for me, dream of me

It seems a pity now to wake her
I'd rather stay here and pretend
If we could only stay forever
Then our dreams would never end

CHORUS



This was recorded first by Bud & Travis on their debut album "Bud and Travis," released 1959 by Liberty Records. The collaboration if Bud and Travis was a rocky one and they split up after 10 album recordings over 7 years. After a solo career, Bud Dashiell died of a brain tumor in 1989. Probably still copyrighted, but I can't find who owns the copyright since his death.

Also recorded by:

Ed Ames; Tony Sandler; The Sandpipers.

BDenz

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bonsoir Dame (Bud Dashiell)
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 21 Apr 08 - 04:20 PM

Geez, has it really been nearly 50 years!? I first saw B&T at UCLA in the Fall of 1960, just a few months after the famous "In Concert" album was recorded. They were terrific together, but certainly did have a rocky relationship. B & T, both fluent in Spanish, probably had the largest Latin repertoire of any non-Hispanic performers (unless Abby Lane counts). I believe Travis is still with us in Arizona, but last i heard he was quite infirm.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bonsoir Dame (Bud Dashiell)
From: BDenz
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 06:49 PM

Travis is still around, tho the last photos I saw if him have him wheelchair-bound and on oxygen. He has a Web site -- www.travisedmonson.com.

I saw the Chad Mitchell Trio in concert in Seattle earlier this month and went on a quest to find my old albums in CD form (since my vinyl is a TAD scratched up!) and found all of the old folkies out at http://rediscovermusic.com/. Very dangerous place. Beware! ;)