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|f_annotation='''AH! LES FEMMES [1].''' AKA - "Ah! The Ladies." French-Canadian, Two-step and Song Air (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB & vocal.
|f_annotation='''AH! LES FEMMES [1].''' AKA - "Ah! The Ladies." French-Canadian, Two-step and Song Air (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB & vocal.
|f_recorded_sources=Starr15646B (78 RPM), Philias Malouin (1929)
"Ah! les femmes" was a two-step with vocals by fiddler/violinist Philias Malouin, recorded for Starr records in Oct. 1929, and released in January of the following year. The simple lyric, sung in French and then English, goes:
<blockquote>
''Les femmes, a voluez-vous,''<br>
''Les femmes, ?;''<br>
''The ladies, I love them small,''<br>
''The ladies, I love them tall;''<br>
''The ladies, they make me fall,<br>
''The ladies, I love them all.''<br>
</blockquote>
|f_printed_sources=Olivier Demers ('''1000 airs du Québec et de l’Amérique francophone'''), 2020; p. 20
|f_recorded_sources=Starr15646B (78 RPM), Philias Malouin (1929).
|f_see_also_listing=Hear Philas Malouin's 1929 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [https://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/13309.mp3]
|f_see_also_listing=Hear Philas Malouin's 1929 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [https://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/13309.mp3]
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AH! LES FEMMES [1]. AKA - "Ah! The Ladies." French-Canadian, Two-step and Song Air (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB & vocal. "Ah! les femmes" was a two-step with vocals by fiddler/violinist Philias Malouin, recorded for Starr records in Oct. 1929, and released in January of the following year. The simple lyric, sung in French and then English, goes:

Les femmes, a voluez-vous,
Les femmes, ?;
The ladies, I love them small,
The ladies, I love them tall;
The ladies, they make me fall,
The ladies, I love them all.


Additional notes



Printed sources : - Olivier Demers (1000 airs du Québec et de l’Amérique francophone), 2020; p. 20

Recorded sources : - Starr15646B (78 RPM), Philias Malouin (1929).

See also listing at :
Hear Philas Malouin's 1929 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [1]



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