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 Theme code Index    2H2H2H3H 1H1H1H2H
 Also known as    French Blues
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Cajun/Creole
 Meter/Rhythm    Blues
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    4/4
 History    USA(Deep South)
 Structure    
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Raymond François
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Ye Yaille Chere!
 Tune and/or Page number    pp. 52-53
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1990
 Artist    Biography:Nathan Abshire
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    Old Timey Records OT-128
 Year recorded    
 Media    
 Score   ()   


BLUES FRANÇAIS (French Blues). Cajun, Country Blues (4/4). USA, Louisiana. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Irregular form. A related song is Ambose Thibodeaux's "Tante Dalli," about a little boy who drowned among water lilies in the Coulee Rosa/Rozas.

Source for notated version: accordionist Nathan Abshire (Basile, La.) [Francois].

Printed souce: Francois (Yé Yaille, Chère!), 1990; pp. 52-53.

Recorded source: Old Timey Records OT-128, Nathan Abshire.


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