Mr Gateaux (Mr Gato)

This song is about a cajun gentleman whom everyone liked.
He would go deep into the Louisiana Bayous and Swamps to fish and provide for his family.
He always would go out alone in a "pirogue" a hand made boat crafted from a single log similar to a dugout canoe.
One day Mr Gateaux is never heard from again and nobody knows what happened to him.

This video is dedicated to all "Mr Gateaux's" who have ever been lost in the Bayous and Swamps of South Louisiana.

A special thanks goes out to Tom Davenport and Folkstreams.net for permission to use footage from the 1954 video titled "The Pirogue Maker" by Arnold Eagle, documenting one of the last Pirogue Makers in Louisiana and the construction methods they used.

This video and other videos of Folk America can be viewed here;
http://www.folkstreams.net/filmmaker,201

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Music

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