Lyr Add: Youpe! Youpe! Sur la Rivière

Subject: Lyr Add: YOUPE! YOUPE! SUR LA RIVIERE
From:
Date: 03 Oct 97 - 09:53 AM

I told someone Rachel? Shula? that I would post the words to this song, so here they are. Actually this constitutes three short songs, which Stringband sang one after another on their "Live" album. They are lively French-Canadian songs.

"Youpe" is pronounced "YOO-PEE" and is I suppose the French equivalent of "Yippie". It is also the name of the mascot of the Montreal Expos, but whether taken from this song or not I don't know.

YOUPE! YOUPE! SUR LA RIVIERE
(Trad)

Par un dimanche au soir
m'en allant promener
et moi et puis Francois
tous deux de campagnee
chez bonhomme Gauthier
nous avons te veiller
je vais vous raconter
l'tour qui m'est arrive

(Chorus)
Youpe! Youpe! Sur la riviere
vous ne m'entendez guere!
Youpe! Youpe! Sur la riviere
vous ne m'entendez pas!

J'y allumai ma pipe
come c'etai la facon
disant quelques paroles
aux gens de la maison
je dis a Delima
"Me permettriez vous
de m'eloigner des autres
pour m'approcher de vous"

(Chorus)

LA BASTRINGUE
(Trad)

Mademoiselle voulez-vous danser
la bastringue, la bastrigue
mademoiselle voulez-vous danser
la bastringue est commencee

Oui Monsieur je viens danser
la bastringue, la bastringue
oui Monsieur je viens danser
la bastringue, si vous voulez

V'LA LE BON VENT
(Trad)

Derriere chez nous ya-t-un etang
deux beaux canards e'en vont volant

V'la l'bon vent, v'la l'joli vent
v'la l'bon vent, ma mie m'appelle
v'la 'bon vent, v'la l'joli vent
v'la l'bon vent ma mie m'attend

le fils du roi s'en va chassant
avec son grand fusil d'argent
visa le noir tua le blanc.

Subject: RE: LYR ADD Youpe! Youpe!
From:
Date: 03 Oct 97 - 09:57 AM

Incidently, I copied the lyrics directly from the album liner so I take no responsibility for grammatical accuracy. Some of it looks odd to me but perhaps they are attempting to capture the sound of slang or slurring of words.

Subject: RE: LYR ADD Youpe! Youpe!
From: Frank Phillips
Date: 03 Oct 97 - 10:45 AM

Tim

Thanks for the words to La Bastrinque. I have it as an instrumental on a CD somewhere (possibly Richard Thompson's Strict Tempo but I'd have to verify that) and the notes are in the Fiddler's Fake book by Oak Publications. Also Youpe is in Folk songs of Quebec by Edith Fulton Fowke and Richard Johnson, Waterloo Publications.

Frank