ganey, this is pure brilliance!!!
i love the image of folk music as being something organic.......once you take it in and learn it and take it to heart, it comes out with your combined experiences and emotions and becomes yours. futile to try to learn it just as it was recorded by someone else. when i was in high school, i labored to play the fingerpicking blues of reverend gary davis. i found it impossible to play it just like he was playing on recordings, so i modified and made it my own. years later, i was to find out that part of the "unique quality" to his music that i couldn't completely mimic was that his left hand had been broken as a child. set poorly, it healed with a strange angle to his wrist. voila, his style was a function of his poorly set wrist....
roger
Covers sometimes can be superior to the original just because artists have had plenty of time to figure out their "angle" on the whole thing.
"Lacassine" isn't one of those. Iry,s version is IT. Everything else is derivative, not bad, just second to something else, like who cares about who did "Georgia On My Mind" after Ray Charles did it or if anyone sang "Only The Lonely" after Frank recorded it?
This is the version I have - I don't remember where I took it. Can anyone help?
Hé comment mais toi tu crois que moi
Mais moi je vas faire tout l’temps dans les misères,
Tout l’temps après souffert, juste rapport à tes paroles,
À tes paroles que toi, catin tu m’avais dit.
Hé, ta chère vilaine manière,
Que toi t’as tout le temps eu
Il faudra t’oublies tout ça
Si toi tu veux rester
Z-avec ton cher vieux nèg’
Mais r‘garde toi tu peux voir
Le chemin et t’en aller
Hé toi, chère, il faut toi tu t’en reviens
Mon, j’suis tout le temps là après jongler
À toi à tous mais ces jonglements
Que toi tu m’as mis dedans