Annotation:Veuves de la Coulée
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VEUVES DE LA COULÉE ('Widows of the Gully' or 'Widows of the Creek'). AKA - "Veuve a Kita la Coulée." Cajun, Two-Step (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA(Vocal)BBAA(Vocal)BBAA(Vocal)BB. The song tells how, in the old days, the "widows of the coulée" would go town to by yellow cotton material to make their own bloomers.
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Source for notated version: Leroy "Happy Fats" LeBlanc and Oran "Doc" Guidry (La.) [Francois].
Printed sources: Francois (Yé Yaille, Chère!), 1990; pp. 306-307.
Recorded sources: La Louisiane Records LL-103, Leroy "Happy Fats" LeBlanc.
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear the Balfa Brothers' recording on youtube.com [2]
Hear a clip of the tune played by Happy Fats at Swallow Records [3]