Mystery 1.
Hi,
I've
been travelling around the web, looking for sites that might feature old
songs such as the one my grandfather used to sing. He was born in
Louisdale, Nova Scotia in 1880, and spoke French at home. The song
is about a man (Papa Nicholas) who is the mother of one Lucien. It
is sort of an Acadien "I'm my own grandpa" and only makes sense if you
know the nuances of the Acadien French. I only have a few lines of
the song still in my memory, and would love to have it all again.
It goes:
Merci
beaux yeau, prend garde à tois,
Parla
Francais, Papa Nichola
Papa
Nichola c'est la mére de Lucien,
C'est
meme quand nous l'arrainge.
Il
faux i graté da da da da da da,
and
so on
Forgive
me if I murdered the French, but I do it phonetically. Any Ideas?
Thanks for anything.
Joe Peterson
|