This tune has been Haunting me to learn Jim,so I'm giving it a shot.You told me the name ,I think before but I forgot it.Anyway I love the way you play it and thought others might enjoy it.Are there lyrics,and were did it come from.You definitely got the old sound on the accordion

It's called Bayou Teche me thinks, you can play it in the major scale, like C on a C, but also in G on a C accordion. - Nout

That's Bayou Teche Special, one i've been working on a lot lately. Amede Ardoin recorded under the name Two Step D'Elton, Austin Pitre the most well known version. Balfa Toujours has a nice version also. Yes there is lyrics, this is what I hear from Balfa Toujours version, anyone hear anything different let me know.

Oh, ye yaille, jolie coeur,
comment tu crois, moi, j'va faire?
Moi, j'sus tout seul bebe,
y a p'us personne, mais, pour m'aimer.

Oh, ye yaille tit monde,
moi, j'sus la dans les miseres,
j'jongle a toi, bebe,
moi tout seul a Bayou Teche.

Oh, ye yaille tit coeur,
tu connais, ouais, toi meme,
tu va r'venir me r'join,
çhere tit monde, ça sera trop tard.

Oh, ye yaille, bebe,
moi, j'sus la apres jongler,
jour et nuit, apres venir,
y a p'us personne a Bayou Teche.

dang Jim! you make me want to cut my fingers off man!

dang Jim you make want to grow extra fingers.
Le Piquant

Sounds nice and old fashioned, thanks to the rather wet Cajun tuning on that 114. (a new instrument!)
Notice the minor chord in the backing. Great playing!Good job altogether.

So its Bayou Teche.It doesn't sound like some versions I've heard,but that's the mark of a good player,To make you like a tune.Peer,I think Jim has done a lot to that 114 to sound so good.Makes me want one for the old sound

Pat, hahaha hey thanks for posting I'm honored that you dig my tuning project of an accordion and the video. Cheers.

I love dem 114s, even despite the carpal tunnel factor

So you won't tell how you came to know this song eh Jum? Taking all the credit and not acknowledging the hard work and success of the original artist is pretty low and manipulative of you. You're keeping helpful information from the other accordion players and hiding your source secretly if seems. But I could be wrong.... But don't feel singled out here Jum, Iry Lejeune literally stole about 10 songs from the Amede recordings, renamed them, changed the lyrics, and the world thought Iry was the uncontested master on accordion of all time. So don't feel bad about it Jum.


Here let me remove all the mystery for the sake of knowing the secret. Oh, and by the way, Amede Ardoin only ever recorded on a "D" accordion. He plays that "D" in different positions, but it's always on a "D" accordion. Who says the first accordion you buy should be a "C" accordion. Not necessarily true if you go to the source of Amede to build your mysterious and secretive repertoire that can be used whenever you want to "wow" the crowd and make them think you're the greatest new accordion player. But don't worry about it man, Marc Savoy, Steve Riley, and many others have done the very same thing to poor ole Amede and their "wowed" audiences. I wonder why? No real authentic talent perhaps and the willingness to pull a fast one on their would be fans to make a buck or gain unearned praise perhaps? But, like you, they did such a good job with Amede's work!

No doubt much of today's "Cajun" repertoire are songs first recorded by Amede, but first recordings don't necessarily mean he originated the song. He very well may have learned it from some long forgotten never recorded porch player. One thing that no one has duplicated is the "feel" of Amede's music, and why I listen to him so much, especially on songs like his "Amede Two Step".

Yawn....more psychobabble from da Grebe.

Snowman, I take it Amede Ardoin doesn't interest you much? That's not going to help you much when it comes to learning accordion.

You are correct Bryan. I just heard that both Bois Sec and Amede Ardoin were taught by the same accordion player on this video called "The Death of Amede Ardoin. But the one who posted the video cut the man's name out! I have been thinking on this for a while. WHO TAUGHT AMEDE ARDOIN TO PLAY ACCORDION?? Surely he didn't get handed a bran new accordion as a child and all of a sudden he composed the roots of our Cajun Music Repertoire. Surely he was not the first accordion player ever. Which begs the question, how long has the accordion been around in Cajun Land? Joe Falcon and Cleoma brought Amede Ardoin with them to New York and the first recordings of Cajun music were cut. I just learned that too.

Been a curiosity for me also, who taught the old guys. According to popular legend, the accordion didn't make it to SW La til around the turn of the century, but by the 20's, we guys playing incredibly, just from recordings, and no telling how many unrecorded. So how did they learn to do all that cool stuff that I still can't do after studying them on electronic playback over and over and with youtube.

I shall post my findings soon on how they did it. Doing some serious study on the matter. Almost feverishly. LOL