My Love Willie- Hippolyte Dupont (LA) 1934 Lomax
[From Lomax recording June 1934 and Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax Recordings by Joshua Clegg Caffery.
Listen: http://www.lomax1934.com/mon-cher-willie.html
R. Matteson 2017]
My Love Willie (Mon Cher Willie) sung in French/Cajun by Hippolyte Dupont of Kaplan, Louisianna in June, 1934
Across the village there stands a house,
There stands a house where my boyfriend goes,
He prefers another girlfriend other than me,
And he tells her words he doesn't tell me.
Outside the door there stands a tree,
There is a bird, a sightless bird,
The bird is blind and can barely see,
I want to be like him, and be his friend.
"What ails you daughter, my darling girl,
To be so sad and full of woe?"
Bring me a chair, my pen and ink,
That I might write a word to my darling Will."
With every single line I write,
I'll shed a tear for darling Willie.
With every single line I write,
I'll shed a tear for darling Willie.
Her father came and went upstairs,
Where he found his daughter hanging.
He took his knife and cut the rope,
And on her breast, he found these words:
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