Cajun Music ~ Cajun French

[BmoreBusker]

who is this playing? I'd like to contact him

[BmoreBusker]

Man, that room has beautiful, beautiful acoustics. Hahahah, who asked about dance lessons at the end?

[ephelyos]

de toute façon, même si la Louisiane était restée française, les Américains l'auraient annexée car elle faisait partie de leur espace vital

[trilobright]

I think America would have been a much more interesting place if the Louisiana-Quebec corridor hadn't been forced to assimilate following the Louisiana Purchase. Some of North America's best indigenous music is heard in Acadian country of either nation.

[BIGBUTist]

@trilobright Yes, I agree. Louisiana has lost so much wonderful dialects because of the schools here. I remember attending a Catholic school in Church Point, Louisiana, and was told we were not allowed to speak cajun french on the school grounds, however, the nuns that taught us, spoke french and were from Canada. The order were the Grey Nuns. We were punished for doing what they did among themselves. Speak french.

[frenchiecocorico1]

Salut de Provence en France à nos cousins Cajuns de Louisisane qu'on oublie pas. Et vive la danse.

Voici les paroles de cette chanson traditionnelle du folklore Cajun

From Provence in southern France, greetings to Cajun people our cousins in far Louisiana we don't forget. Now, lets dance

Here below are the lyrics of this traditionnal dance from the Cajun folksong repertoire

[frenchiecocorico1]

2- Gardez donc les jolies filles,

Celles-là que j'aime autant,

Moi, je connais tout l'amour

Que moi j'ai eu pour toi

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Look at the lovely girls

The ones I love too much

And I know well the love

I feel for you..

[frenchiecocorico1]

3- J’ai été-z-au bal hier au soir

Elle était tous habillée z-en noir,

J’ai fait serment jamais de boire

Pour courtiser ma fille

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Yesterday evening I went dancing

She was dressed all in black

I promised never to drink

While I courted my girl

[frenchiecocorico1]

4- J’ai été-z-au bal à soir

Elle est tous habillée z-en bleu,

C’est ça l’habit que moi j’aime

Pour courtiser ma belle

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Yesterday evening I went dancing

She was dressed all in blue

Cause that's the tails I like the best

When I'm courting my baby.

[frenchiecocorico1]

5- J’ai été-z-au bal hier au soir

Je va’s retourner encore à soir

Si l’occasion se présente

Je va’s retourner demain au soir.

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Yesterday I went dancing

I'll come back again this evening

On a good opportunity

I'll return tomorrow evening too

[frenchiecocorico1]

6- Gardez donc les jolies filles,

Personne qui veut m’aimer

Gardons voir si ça c’est pas

Mais misérable pour moi

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Look at the pretty girls

Would one of them love me?

Look if they aren't there

I will be miserable

[andrekod]

Ce morceau s'appelle "J'étais au bal." C'est mignon.

[sinedpandolf]

Merci beaucoup pour la culture francaise et cajun !

Thanks a lot for french and cajun culture !

[barbsreviews]

Thanks for the music uploads - I love your taste

[letarsier59]

Between 1916 and 1968, the use of French was banned in Louisiana, therefore almost anihilating the Cajun and French culture there.

Bunch of genocidal idiots, feel free now to bow before Pedro and his brothers.

[ElCid48]

@letarsier59

Hey, chien! Your fucking king of France abandoned the Acadians and Canada to the British. And now you are complaining about "genocide" in Louisiana. Where? When? Let's talk about the genocide you French committed in Algeria. Or your cowardly retreat before the Blitzkrieg. Or the mess you left for US in Indochina.

Cajuns have nothing to be proud of France. France failed them in Canada.

[ElCid48]

@rocknsixties

Pfffff....hahahaahahaha.

Monsieur Lamerde. The British were the first ones to decapiter la tête d'un roi!

And don't come up with lessons of Histoire. France fucked up themselves in the French Revolution which brought about Bonaparte and the children of the revolutionaires were killed by the thousands in the battlefields of Europe.

Be happy that the Cajun people were American by then and did not have to be sent to Europe.

Remember de "Louisiana Purchase"? Thank God for that!

[frenchiecocorico1]

@ElCid48 IV- At least, who tried to root out Cajun language and culture but US english cultured government. Thank it very much for this good action and be proud to be only american and no more Cajun

[BIGBUTist]

@frenchiecocorico1 I understand what you are saying. I am proud of my french roots. Proud to be Acadian (Cajun). I know that our french isnt what is spoken in France these days, however, I am not ashamed of the way I speak. It was the way of my grandparents. I don't care for the english, yet I married one. As I stated in a reply earlier. The nuns who taught us were Canadian french and spoke it in school to each other.

[BIGBUTist]

@frenchiecocorico1 We were not allowed to speak our language on school grounds, for fear of punisnhment, often if caught speaking the french that was spoken at our homes amongst our parents, we had our mouths washed out with soap. You would think that we had said something dirty. It was the law, children of french speaking people of Louisiana were not allowed to speak our language on school grounds. The nuns could and did.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@BIGBUTist Yes,I know that. This policy of standardization was led to force the citizen in speaking the same language all over the US territory. This policy was led on the same way in France which forbidden the use of regional dialects (alsacian, breton, basque, ...) Nevetheless, the resistance of those peoples and the attachment to their own traditions, dialects and culture allow their revival in Louisiana or in France today but now they have an unifying common language as well.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@ElCid48 III- Yes you can love this french monarchs who betraid you and on the same time hate french revolutionnaries and Bonaparte who sold a colony we couldn't defend anymore thank to them.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@ElCid48 II- Yes the Bourbon's King of France Louis XV (who gave his name to Louisiana) abandonned french Quebec settlers to the british administration. He didn't provide sufficient forces to defend french Canada ( + Michighan, etc...) because heI believed Canada had no economical interest for the kingdom. Only few islands (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Domingue) were useful to provide king and nobleness the exotic goods they need for their luxury.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@ElCid48 I- It seems you know preferently french obscene vocabulary but not the rest. Your knowledge about french history is widely influenced by british and consequently US biased vision. Don't you think I can list too the whole errors USA have done during its history (Indians genocide, secession war, torture toward irakians or the Guantanamo prisonners, lost wars in Vietnam, Corea, Afganistan, ...)?. Really your memory is very selective.

[Hatorah]

@ElCid48 : Hey...you & I agree! I;'ve been telling this to Acadians (of which I am) for many many years, but they send me to hell. They have no idea where our ancestors were originally from....how about Spain? Our ancestors were chased out of Spain during the Inquisition and landed in Southern France where they were treated like sub-humanoids....kept in ghettos, could not get jobs...were surtaxed and oh yes...forced into their damnable Catholic religion.

[ElCid48]

@Hatorah

I take it that you are of Sephardic descent by the info you are giving me. If the Muslims had remained in Spain you would have been totally destroyed. All and all your religion and culture survived all the persecutions, progroms and holocaust thru the centuries.

Keep in mind also that besides that "damnable Catholic religion" the Protestants were equally guilty of discrimination against you.

Keep well.

[ElCid48]

@Hatorah

I guess that you are a Sephardic jew for this info you are giving me. If the Muslims had remained in Spain you would have been totally destroyed. All and all, your religion and your culture are still with you despite persecutions and progroms.

Regarding the "damnable Catholic religion" keep in mind that the Protestants were equally discriminatory against you.

Keep well.

[ElCid48]

@Hatorah

Ooops. I thought I had lost my initial message. It went twice. Sorry about that.

[Hatorah]

@ElCid48 : You got my vote on that! Seems like Acadians favor ignorance rather than education. I read on Monday newspaper in Israel (Arutz Sheva) that Hareidi rabbis were finally looking into the Lost Jews of the Inquisition in Majorca Spain....where my ancestors were from before landing into Southern France during the Inquisition. There are many similarities btwn Jews & Acadians/Cajuns that cannot be "just dismissed". Very specific birthmarks is just 1 remote i.d.

[ElCid48]

@Hatorah

Well, you can't force anyone to look at things the same way you do.

Someone told me I have Hebrew roots because of my last name and was born in Valencia, Spain. The Balearics are very close to Valencia, on the Mediterranean.

The great flamenco guitar player Paco de Lucia says that flamenco singing has more Hebrew roots than Moorish. He should know because he's an scholar in that genre.

[Hatorah]

@ElCid48 : So? R U Acadian/Cajun or not? If so, then your ancestors were from Southern France....they crossed over the Pyrenees.  Some may have roamed around France as some claim to be even from Paris therefore they are NOT Acadians. I have a Doucet lady who wrote me from Tahiti saying her father was from Paris and was very Jewish. Her father had immigrated to Tahiti at a younger age for business and married a Tahitain woman.

I know of another man, Dean of a French university here named

[Hatorah]

@ElCid48 ; Page 2 (cont'd) Named Gagnon from France. He attends my Synagogue and said he cannot understand why QUEBEC Gagnon`s are not Jewish. Most of all Quebec French names are also easily translated into Jewish ones, i.e. Lesage = Wise or Wiseman, Leboeuf = Leboesky, Doucet = Sugar(man) Sweet, LeBlanc= Weiss(man) and the list goes on and on. Many of our names are found on Montreal Jewish Geneology Society or on Sephardimn but here you have to translate surnames into Spanish ones.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@ElCid48 III bis- French revolutionnary soldiers died by thousands on numerous european battlefields because British government betraid the Amiens peace treatise it signed with Bonaparte and organised perfidiously a coalition toward France. Napoleon and the french army lost a fifty years long war against all the european armies (what a glorious victory).

[12vdodge1989]

Great music

[MrCamel1974]

i proud to be a cajun

[redrumredrum89]

@MrCamel1974 yea u right coon ass

[Amarsul]

Bien le bonjour de Paris, France ! Quel est le titre de ce morceau ? (what's the title of this song ?)

[costaboy337]

@Amarsul

I don't know!

[OuachitaTwoStep]

Sounds like "J'etais au Bal"

[koolguy343]

@Amarsul sounds like its supposed to be j'etais au bal, however, it sounds a tad rough to be that sound.

[mjr251]

@Amarsul - S'appelle 'J'etais au Bal'.

[Amarsul]

@mjr251 Merci beaucoup !

[NotSoRoyalKayla]

@Amarsul yo butt

[Amarsul]

@NotSoRoyalKayla Beg your pardon ? Don't understand, Kayla :-/

[thecajun12]

thats really great

[CadjinGisclair]

Bonjour de la Paroisse de LaFourche! Bon ouvrage!

Hello from Lafourche Parish! Great job!

-Michael

[Minoutto]

Beautiful!

[costaboy337]

Thank you