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VEUVES DE LA COULÉE (Widows of the Gully). AKA - "Veuve a Kita la Coulée." Cajun, Two-Step (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA(Vocal)BBAA(Vocal)BBAA(Vocal)BB. The song tells how, in the old days, the "widows of the coulée" would go town to by yellow cotton material to make their own bloomers.

Source for notated version: Leroy "Happy Fats" LeBlanc and Oran "Doc" Guidry (La.) [Francois].

Printed sources: Francois (Yé Yaille, Chère!), 1990; pp. 306-307.

Recorded sources: La Louisiane Records LL-103, Leroy "Happy Fats" LeBlanc.

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear the Balfa Brothers' recording on youtube.com [2]

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+'''VEUVES DE LA COULÉE''' (Widows of the Gully). AKA - "Veuve a Kita la Coulée." Cajun, Two-Step (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA(Vocal)BBAA(Vocal)BBAA(Vocal)BB. The song tells how, in the old days, the "widows of the coulée" would go town to by yellow cotton material to make their own bloomers.
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 See also listing at:<br>
 Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/v01.htm#Veudelac]<br>
+Hear the Balfa Brothers' recording on youtube.com [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKjAqh8KJe0]<br>
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