#340350 - 02/20/1207:45 AMRe: By Request Im Posting some tunes again
[Re: Dnj]
SemiLiveMusic
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Registered: 08/28/04
Posts: 2204
Loc: Louisiana, USA
Very good, as usual! My only nit to this Louisiana boy's ears is you omitted the word "big" from "For tonight, we'll have big fun on the bayou." There's a world of difference between fun and big fun, my friend. Ol' Hank (Williams) knew it too well!
Of course, you can sing as you please, it's just a silly (yet truthful) comment.) I always loved how he wrote the word big in there. A genius writer!
Bill.......what can I say?... I'm Wannabee Cajun Yankee I need some more Don M lessons gives me an excuse to comedown south with you guys again...thanx for pointing that out...appreciate the listen..
#340353 - 02/20/1208:08 AMRe: By Request Im Posting some tunes again
[Re: Dnj]
DonM
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Registered: 06/25/99
Posts: 16735
Loc: Benton, LA, USA
Hank fooled around a lot with words in this song. "Tippy-to" instead of Thibodaux, Fountain-O for Fontainenot, for example. He mispronounced Bayou to be Buy-O, so it would rhyme with me oh my oh and Pirogue. He even said Jumbalaya rather than Jambalaya. Almost forgot, Filly-gumbo? It's fillet Gumbo! Or as the Cajuns prounced it fee-lay. He "borrowed" the melody from an old Cajun song named Grand Texas, but the words were definitely his own! DonM
Hank fooled around a lot with words in this song. "Tippy-to" instead of Thibodaux, Fountain-O for Fontainenot, for example. He mispronounced Bayou to be Buy-O, so it would rhyme with me oh my oh and Pirogue. He even said Jumbalaya rather than Jambalaya. Almost forgot, Filly-gumbo? It's fillet Gumbo! Or as the Cajuns prounced it fee-lay. He "borrowed" the melody from an old Cajun song named Grand Texas, but the words were definitely his own! DonM
Thanx for that Cajun lesson Don only slang words I know are Brooklynese such as "Fuhgettabouttit"
I need some more Don M lessons gives me an excuse to comedown south with you guys again...thanx for pointing that out...appreciate the listen..
only slang words I know are Brooklynese such as "Fuhgettabouttit" 
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