Bryan I remember watching and studying your first version in my early days of learning to play this one, you've definately improved on it and it flows like a good waltz should, like john I'm always impressed with low notes thrown in- it must take alot of practice to do that comfortably.
Can anyone help me out with the lyrics to this one?
I've been using quite a simple two verse set- can't remember where from, not quite as basic as the Buckwheat version- which I am very fond of all the same.
Is there a standard set of lyrics that most cajun players prefer?
Bryan, I like your expansion of the melodic line to follow the vocal melody. This seems to be uncommon in Cajun music (case in point: Madeleine). Nice work!
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I'm having the opposite reaction. I just don't hear the melody to this song, the way that it is sung or played on fiddle, on the accordion. I keep hearing harmony notes where I am expecting to hear melody notes. And that's the case whether it's Bryan's version, or Octa Clark's on youtube.
The first time that I suggested this song at a jam none of the accordion players could play it. Do the melody notes just not lie well on accordion?
I was never attracted to the song, partially because it IS such a standard, and people might ask for that like they ask for Jambalaya (in my experience, people will ask for Jambalaya much more often).
When I did sit down to learn it, it really was not falling together well under my less experienced fingers, and someone else on here warned me that the B part was even more difficult.
I love the song, but it's one of those played so much I get kinda tire of it. But not nearly to the degree I've come to cringe anytime I hear La Port En Arriere.
Steve Riley calls this a "hard song" in his intermediate lesson CD. The way he plays it, one must agree. However, there are as many interpretations as there are players, but I still find this to be a difficult song to be so basically simple.