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30 Jun 18 - 04:23 PM (#3934444) Subject: songs suitable for bastille day From: The Sandman any tradsongs that might be appropriate? |
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30 Jun 18 - 04:53 PM (#3934454) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: Jack Campin The most popular song of the time was "La Carmagnole". |
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30 Jun 18 - 05:48 PM (#3934459) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: open mike perhaps there is a song called let them eat cake? |
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30 Jun 18 - 06:07 PM (#3934462) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: Tattie Bogle La Marseillaise - all the verses, which get successively bloodier as you go on? We will be playing some French song tunes at our monthly Farmers' Market which happens to fall on 14th Juillet, but they aren't all trad. Some from the repertoire of Nadau - Catarineta, and Da Cap de L'Immortela Plaisir D'Amour, Sous les Ponts de Paris. Might include some Piaf and Moustaki. And, we won't be playing this, but I do love it - "Les Temps des Cerises" though it pertains to the later period of the Paris Commune. And for tunes, plenty of An Dros, mazurkas and bourrees. |
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30 Jun 18 - 06:47 PM (#3934468) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: Jack Campin This is as definitive as it gets: https://www.abebooks.fr/rechercher-livre/titre/histoire-de-france-par-les-chansons/auteur/barbier-vernillat/ No need for guesswork. |
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01 Jul 18 - 02:54 AM (#3934502) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: Monique When more than the 1st verse is sung we usually add #6 and #7 -"children". Of course it's bloody: the original title was Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin. La Marseillaise's "little sister" is "Le chant du départ". We used to learn the first 3 verses at school when I was a child (quite long ago! I always loved the G-G-Eflat-C-C-G tune of the last line of the verse but that's just me). Pedant's moment: it's "L'immortèla" or "De cap tà l'immortèla". "Tà" (entà) is the equivalent of the Fr. "pour, à, afin que, jusqu'à". "De cap tà..." can be translated as "heading for..." = "to/towards" -("cap" = head) |
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01 Jul 18 - 06:58 AM (#3934550) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: Tattie Bogle Yes, sorry, Monique, I quoted the Nadau titke late at night from defective memory! Thanks for the other information. |
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01 Jul 18 - 04:49 PM (#3934636) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: BobL You could do worse than explore this site, although a better knowledge of French than my rusty O-level is preferred. |
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01 Jul 18 - 05:15 PM (#3934637) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: Monique Hmmm... this site is a bawdy songs site and you can actually improve your knowledge of French about a thing or two... |
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01 Jul 18 - 05:17 PM (#3934638) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: Jack Campin Thanks for that - not easy to read on a phone but it looks like there's a lot there. |
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04 Jul 18 - 09:30 AM (#3935199) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: GUEST,jim bainbridge While living near Dover, we did regular gigs at a cafe in Boulogne old town on le quatorze & other times. A handy piano accordionist with us (Oscar Simmons of Gravesend) knew such as 'J'attendrai' & a rude Canadian words to La Marseillaise'- we didn't sing & just played music mainly. Passing English daytrippers would whisper 'I'm sure they're not French, you know' - we used to get away with it till we met them while busking the duty-free queue on the ferry back- mind you Oscar's fluent French, moustache and striped shirt helped- although the string of onions over his shoulder were a nice touch... happy days!! |
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05 Jul 18 - 09:24 AM (#3935441) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: keberoxu "La Carmagnole" was nicely recorded, a cappella, by the Pennywhistlers, that's where I first heard it. |
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06 Jul 18 - 04:23 PM (#3935809) Subject: RE: songs suitable for bastille day From: GUEST,Ebor Fiddler Haul Away Joe has that lovely verse - King Louis was the king of France before the Revolution King Louis got his head cut off which spoiled his constitution. Chris B. |
