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Bonne lecture: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_la_claire_fontaine

Translation: À la claire fontaine is a traditional French song that comes from an anonymous poem written between the 15th and 18th centuries. According to Canadian ethnomusicologist Marius Barbeau (1883-1969), the song was composed by a 15th or 16th century juggler. James Huston (1820-1854), Canadian journalist, writes that “the air and the words seem to have been composed by one of the first Canadian travelers”.

Very popular in France, it has also been popular in New France / Quebec since the 18th century, where it was historically sung by the Coureurs des Bois during long canoe trips and by the Patriots during the 1837-1838 uprisings against English hegemony. This song has known more than five hundred versions. Our version comes from Chéticamp, Nova-Scotia (source: Chants d'Acadie)

*The meaning of this text poses problems of interpretation. Is it a badly married girl, a girl seized with sadness on the day of a wedding because she can no longer marry a boy after having refused him and given to another? Or of a young girl who gave herself too early, then saw herself rejected because she was not pure enough for the time?

(Réf: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_la_claire_fontaine)

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Après ma journée faite, m’en allant
promener
J’ai trouvé l’eau si belle, que je m’y suis
baigné

C’est mon amant,
Je le vois, je l’attends,
Celui que j’aime
D’amour extrême.
C’est mon amant,
Je le vois, je l’attends,
Celui que mon cœur aime tant

Sous les feuilles d’un chêne, je me suis
fait sécher
Sur la plus haute branche, un rossignol
chantait

Chante, rossignol, chante, toi qui as le
cœur gai
Tu as le cœur à rire, moi je l’ai à pleurer

J’ai perdu mon Jean-Pierre, sans l’avoir
mérité
Pour un bouquet de rose, que je lui
refusai

Je voudrais que la rose, fût encore au
rosier
Et puis que mon Jean-Pierre, fût encore
à m’aimer

Translation:

After my day done,
I'm leaving to take a walk
I found the water so beautiful,
That I bathed

He's my lover,
I see it, I wait for it,
The one I love
Extreme love.
He's my lover,
I see it, I wait for it,
The one my heart loves so much

Under the leaves of an oak tree,
I dried myself
On the highest branch,
A nightingale was singing

Sing, nightingale, sing,
You who have the cheerful heart
You have the heart to laugh,
I have it to cry

I lost my Jean-Pierre,
Without having it deserved
For a "bouquet of roses",
Which I refused

I wish the rose button
Was still at rosebush
And that my Jean-Pierre,
Was still to love me

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from New​/​Nouveau​-​Perdrais​-​je mon temps​.​.​.​(​Would I be losing my time​.​.​.​), released May 5, 2023

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La famille LeBlanc Bathurst, New Brunswick

The celebrated LeBlanc Clan performs 19th century tunes deeply rooted into Celtic and Acadian traditions and mostly unknown to other Celtic nations such as Ireland, Brittany and Scotland. With their three daughters playing the concertina, the whistle and the fiddle the family plays some of the oldest Acadian songs and ballads
accompanied by baroque, jazz and traditional arrangements on the piano. ... more

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