Yes, "tante" is an aunt.

Taunt Na Na Waltz

j'ai parti là-bas chez ma vieille tante
elle est là-bas dans la campagne
son nom, son nom, son nom, son nom
son nom, c'est tante Na Na

donne-moi un autre filet de whisky
avant j'arrive chez tante Na Na
donne-moi un autre filet de whisky
avant j'arrive chez tante Na Na

He he he he
ho ho ho ho
donne-moi un autre filet de whisky
avant j'arrive chez tante Na Na

donne-moi un autre filet de whisky
avant j'arrive chez tante Na Na
donne-moi un autre filet de whisky
avant j'arrive chez tante Na Na

He he he he
ho ho ho ho
donne-moi un autre filet de whisky
avant j'arrive chez tante Na Na
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Two-step de taunt Na Na

m'en aller chez tante Na Na
tante Na Na était pas là
demandé ayou elle était
(sorry! don't get this one)

tu m'as dit que tu m'aimais
o yé yaille mon cher ti-coeur
tu m'as dit que tu m'aimais
c'est pour ça tu m'as quitté

m'en aller chez nonc Eddy
nonc Eddy était pas là
demandé ayou y était
yé t'après mais roulailler

tu m'as dit que tu m'aimais
o yé yaille mon cher ti-coeur
tu m'as dit que tu m'aimais
c'est pour ça tu m'as quitté


Nicole

Hi Nicole,
you must be the same Nicole I met at Balfa camp a couple of years ago. If so, good to hear from you. If I recall, you played accordion and fiddle. yes?

Anyway, way cool of you to post these lyrics. I will learn the tunes. By the way, which versions did you learn these from? It would help me to learn from the same, to get the French right.

See ya,
Kjones

Yep, this is me!
I picked up the lyrics from Preston Frank's cd.
Glad to help,
Nicole

Thanks for the lyrics. I have tried to decipher them before (the waltz) and got stuck on some of the words. It looks like the lyrics are the same as the recording by Lynn August, which is one of my favorite recordings of it.

Thanks again,

David

I'm from Scott LA, and I've heard this song all my life and never understood it or had it explained to me in a way that made sense either.

I don't read or speak French very well, but I understand quite a bit spoken.

Anyway, my Pop used to sing this song, and when I've asked him to explain what it was about he'd only told me it was a man begging for his aunt to come back to him (there were more words in the lyrics I remember, more of a chorus about him crying for his aunt).

Anyway, Pop never could explain to me what the relationshiop was with the aunt, and I used to (to joke with him, just to make fun) call it 'the incest song'.

I think if the full version, the way the people in the country used to sing it made it seem more like that, but I can't remember the details of the words to try to write it down.

There is an older and happy version on Neal’s site that goes like this :
(several times in a different order) :

Un temps mouillasseux
Et la pistache à tante Nana,
C’est ça qu’est si bon
Griller dans le bas du stove,
S’en aller chez nonc (???)
Pour voir la tante Nana
C’est ça qu’est si bon
Et la pistache à tante Nana.

Christian

C'est Nonc 'Tave (for Octave). I love that song. It sure seems to have a phallic conotation in the Roy Fusilier version. I heard that the song originally was "la pistache a trois nanan" (a 3 nut peanut, apparently not common).

Bryan Lafleur

Ouais, c'est pas clair cette affaire !

Merci d'avoir complété (j'aime pas qu'il me manque des mots dans une chanson).

Christian