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Here are the lyrics in French AND English. This is MY personal favorite cajun song of all time. Enjoy.....
Hey, yaille, depuis l'âge de quatorze ans...
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Here are the lyrics in French AND English. This is MY personal favorite cajun song of all time. Enjoy.....
Hey, yaille, depuis l'âge de quatorze ans,
J'après rouler manche à manche
Après rouler avec ma bouteille dans la main
Pour essayer d'en trouver
Pour essayer d'en trouver une autre comme toi
T'es la seule mon couer désire
Hey, bébé
Chaque fois je pars de la maison
Pop et mom se mettent à pleurer
Ça me suit jusqu'à la porte du cour
En disant, " Toi t'es un bon à rien"
Fait pas ça, viens, donc nous rejoindre
Oh,ye yaille, mais moi j'ai toujours dit
Toujours dit à mon vieux pop et à ma chère vieille bonne maman
Moi, je connais j'suis un bon à rien
J'suis un bon à rien pour moi-même
J'ai jamais fait rien pour personne
Hey Bébé
Aujourd'hui n'importe ayoù
N'importe ayoù moi j'peux passer
Blanc et noir, ça me pointe au doigt, chère
En disant, "Gardez-là,"
"Gardez-là le bon à rien, le rouleur et bambocheur"
Hey, chère,
Aujourd'hui J'suis condamné
Condamné à rouler
Ma bourouette sur ma planche de six pouces
Quatre-vingt dix neuf ans.
Quatre-vingt dix neuf ans, c'est la limite d'un bon a rien
Ça c'est le restant de ma vie
Aussi loin de cette la moi j'aime
Et quand j'étais petit
Moi je braillais pour des patates
Et quand moi j'suis devenu moyen,
Moi, je braillais pour ma bouteille
Asteur, moi j'suis grand
J'après brailler pour les 'tites veuves
Je serais content d'avoir une et de l'amener à ma maison.
In English
Hey, since the age of fourteen
I've rambled from road to road
Rambling with my bottle in hand
Trying to find another like you,
You're the only one my heart desires
Hey Baby, each time I leave my house
Pop and mom start crying
They follow me to the gate of the yard
Saying "You're good for nothing,
"Don't do that and come back and join us."
Oh, I always said
Always said to my old pop and to my dear old mom
I know I'm a good for nothing
I'm good for nothing for myself
I never did anything for anybody
Hey Baby,
Today, no matter where I go
The whites and the blacks point their fingers at me
Saying, "Look there, look there a the good for nothing,
The drunken rambler"
Hey, dear
Today I'm condemned
Condemned to ramble
My wheelbarrow on my six-inch plank,
For ninety --nine years
Ninety-nine years, that's the limit for a good for nothing.
That's the rest of my life
So far from the one I love
When I was little
I cried for my potato
And when I got older,
I'd cry for my bottle
Now I'm grown
And I'm crying for the little widows
I'd be so happy to have one,
And bring her back to my house.
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Track: Parlez Nous A Boire
Artist: The Balfa Brothers
Album: The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music: Vols. 1 & 2
Label: Swallow Records
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Track: Parlez Nous A Boire
Artist: The Balfa Brothers
Album: The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music: Vols. 1 & 2
Label: Swallow Records
This is a studio version of the wonderful track featured in the movie Southern Comfort. Unfortunately, as best I know, the complete movie soundtrack was never released, so if you want to hear it in all its glory you'll have to buy the DVD. It's a good movie and the soundtrack, produced by Ry Cooder, is excellent.
Here's Dewey Balfa describing his 1964 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, the first time Cajun music had featured there -
"I had played in house dances, family gatherings, maybe a dance hall where you might have seen as many as two hundred people at once. In fact, I doubt I had ever seen two hundred people at once. And in Newport, there were seventeen thousand. Seventeen thousand people who wouldn't let us get off stage."
http://www.balfatoujours.com/brothers...
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I see we like alot of the same music. :-)
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