Annotation:Fais Ton Dodo

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 FAIS TON DODO. Cajun, Waltz. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "'Fais do do' is a popular Cajun term for a dance. It is a Cajun phrase which literally means go to sleep. The whole family was brought to the dance and the babies would go to sleep. After a time the term came to mean the name of the dance. There are still many 'Fais do do's,' or street dances, in Louisiana" (Greenblatt).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Greenblatt (The Cajun Fiddle Tune Book), 1985; p. 10.  Recorded sources:

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