Annotation:Ronde des voyageurs
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X: 1 T: Ronde des voyageurs, La S: Fortunat Malouin M: C| L: 1/8 Z: Contributed 20050219210518 by John Chambers jc:trillian.mit.edu K: Am |: "Am"E3E A2c2 | e4- eede | "Dm"f3f f2a2 | "Am"e3a "D7"a4 | "G"G3G B2cd | d4- "/F"dBde |1 "E7"f3d d2B2 | "Am"~c2AB "E7"~A2E2 | |:|2"E7"f2d2 B2e2 | "Am"A6 "E7"AB |[| [K:A]"A"c3c c2e2 |A4- AAcd | "A"e2a2 g2f2 | "E7"g2eg f2ec | "Bm"d3f d2c2 | "E7"B2GB EGBe| "E7"g3a gfeg | fedf "(A)"ecAB [| "A"c3c c2e2 | A4- AAcd | | "A"e2a2 g2f2| "D"b4 f3g| "D"a2ga "B7"g2fg | "E"f2ef "F#(m)"eAce | "B(m)"[d'2f2]b2 "E7"f2g2| "A"afec A4 |]
RONDE DES VOYAGEURS (Travelers’ round dance). French-Canadian, Reel. A Minor (‘A’ part) & A Major (‘B’ part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’: ABABCABA (Duval). The voyageurs/travelers of the title echoes the intrepid fur traders of early Canada, but, as Jean Duval points out, it probably more directly referred to the constant journeying of Québec City traveling salesman and fiddler Fortunat Malouin (1870-1935) as he made his sales rounds. The tune was recorded in New York in 1928 by Malouin who was originally from Saint-Sauveur, Québec, but who lived most of his life in Québec City. The tune was published in 1933 by J.A. Boucher, but with an added fourth part, a variation of the second strain.