A friend who visits this forum but cant post emailed me that the song is named after a WALter FUSilier who had a nightclub outside Oakdale. I would have bet that it was a name or nickname, seems like a lot of songs are named this way.

Mr. Francois just wasnt looking in the right places.

Meant to put Walfus/Wafus in subject line, my fingers and brain dont connect well with just one cup of coffee.

Bryan,
Many thanks. I always like to know where a song's coming from.

Jude

Was Mr. Walter Fusilier's club called La Talle Des Eronces or The Briar Patch by any chance. Sounds like a good name for bar/club.
JB

Now lets decode "A Whiter Shade of Pale". "Louie Louie" too.

Good sense, innocence, cripplin' and kind.
Dead kings, many things I can't define.
Oh Cajun spice, sweats and blushers your mind.
Incense and peppermints, the color of thyme.

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothing to lose.

Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns.
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around.
Look at yourself, look at yourself,
Yeah, yeah.
Look at yourself, look at yourself,
Yeah, yeah,
Yeah, yeah.

Tune-a by the cockeyed world in two.
Throw your pride to one side, It's the least you can do.
Beatniks and politics, nothing is new.
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view.

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothing to lose.

Good sense, innocence, crippled and kind.
Dead kings and many things I can't define.
Oh Cajun spice, sweats and blushers your mind.
Incense and peppermints, the color of thyme.

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothing to lose.

Incense, peppermints, incense, peppermints.

Sha-la-la, sha-la-la....

It's already been done, see above link. But thanks for the lyrics. I always wondered what those guys were singing. Car radio speakers back in the 60's were not as good as they are today.
Sarcasm, whether subtle or scathing, is wasted on a goodly number of this group, I suppose, yours truly included.
Dwight, did you copy those lyrics from memory? Outsanding, if that is the case.
JB

What memory?

No, off the internet. You know, growing up in Louisiana during the 60's, and hearing that song, I always thought they were saying something else that sounded like "Cajun".

A mondegreen that wasn't.

Or course, I also heard "Yard full of lunatics, one wanted you".

"Many mondegreens have given ideas for song parodies. Some artists, such as John Fogerty and Jimi Hendrix, have deliberately sung their songs as mondegreens in concerts, such as "There's a bathroom on the right" in "Bad Moon Rising" instead of the correct "There's a bad moon on the rise", or "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" in lieu of "kiss the sky", to amuse the audience. "

That should be "A yard thick with lunatics, one wanted you".

And I don't care what the "real" lyrics to "Louie,Louie" may be, I know what I heard as a teenage kid and that is what all the guys I knew believed was said and I don't care what the FBI reported, that verse is what it is, period, urban legend ( or in our case, country legend) or not. Otherwise it is just another R & R piece recorded in somebodys tin shed. Lunatic Fringe? she said.
JB

Does Weird Al Yankovic play the Cajun Accordion? When does a Mondagreen turn into a Parody?
JB

So, somebody told you about the way I play.

Used to go through Paradis all the time. Near Boutte. And Luling.

You guys are both "Wright."

Make sure you hang a right into Sphar's (Des Allemands). Order the bloody mary.

Holy cow,

R!CK

Des Allemands, where you'll never get a nosebleed from the altitude, and every tide is high tide. Man that place was liquid.

Awesome info, THANKS!

Great job, Bryan! So, should that be pronounced like Wall-Fuse?

I just report the facts as I get them from my secret sources, I dont speculate.....much.