The lyrics I sent were straight from the Beausoleil lp Bayou Cadillac

Harlan : Many thanks. I had kept an eye on the responses for awhile. When it went far down the list, I lost site of any new responses. Thank you so much for the lyrics. When I read them they seem to jive well with what I hear on he song. I was just not confidant that what I was hearing was correct. One question. Do you know what ..... canailler .... means? It's never been part of my french vacabulary.

Many Many thanks

JL Brunelle

Canailler is to play pranks.

Canailler: Jouer des mauvais coup
T'es canaille: t'es pas fine...contradictoire, tete dure, tu fais a ta tete.

It's a pleasure to hear the cajun accent and the words like canaille not so familiar to the french we know in Canada.
Cajun french sounds more like Acadian french (not surprisingly) than Québec french.
But Cajun french sounds to me more like Quebec french than the european accents.
I hope cajun french hangs around for a long time to come, it's such a rich language.

unfortunately it wont be around much longer....sure their will be a few people that will be able to speak it..but its only hanging by a thread now.

Yes well heureusement y en ont qui ont vraiment la tète dure. Faut encourager le Codofil et tous ceux qui enseignent là-dedans.

Bien dit. :-)