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''Oh, well yes, girl, dear, you should go wash up.]''<br /> | ''Oh, well yes, girl, dear, you should go wash up.]''<br /> | ||
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The Fawvor brothers (James on fiddle/vocals and Dudley on guitar/vocals) were anglophone musicians who had picked up French for playing to the predominantly Francophone audiences hear their home in Grand Chenier, in Cameron Parish (Texas). They negotiated a recording deal with a Columbia Records executive when they acted as guides during a coastal duck hunt, and were given an audition. Despite having limited French, the duo sang several songs in the language, passed the audition and were given a recording deal. James Fawvor played the fiddle with a Texas-style long bow on the recording (not the usual fiddle style heard on Cajun records), while both sang on the recording of "T'es Petite et T'es Mignonne"<ref>Information from Ryan Andre Brasseaux, '''Cajun Breakdown: The Emeregence of an American-Made Music''', 2009. </ref> | The Fawvor brothers (James on fiddle/vocals and Dudley on guitar/vocals) were anglophone musicians who had picked up French for playing to the predominantly Francophone audiences hear their home in Grand Chenier, in Cameron Parish (Texas). They negotiated a recording deal with a Columbia Records executive when they acted as guides during a coastal duck hunt, and were given an audition. Despite having limited French, the duo sang several songs in the language, passed the audition and were given a recording deal. James Fawvor played the fiddle with a Texas-style long bow on the recording (not the usual fiddle style heard on Cajun records), while both sang on the recording of "T'es Petite et T'es Mignonne"<ref>Information from Ryan Andre Brasseaux, '''Cajun Breakdown: The Emeregence of an American-Made Music''', 2009. </ref>. | ||
"Tippy Tee Tippy En" is a misspelled version of the title, recorded by Vincent Crawford and His Joy Boys (Khoury's K640-A, 45 RPM). | "Tippy Tee Tippy En" is a misspelled version of the title, recorded by Vincent Crawford and His Joy Boys (Khoury's K640-A, 45 RPM). | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Dudley and James Favor [Francois]. | |f_source_for_notated_version=Dudley and James Favor [Francois]. | ||
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T'ES PETITE ET T'ES MIGNONNE (You're Small and You're Cute). AKA "Tippy Tee Tippy En." Cajun, Waltz (3/4 time). USA, southwestern Louisiana. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB(Vocal)BBAABB(Vocal)BB. "T'es petite et t'es mignonne" is a old Creole song first recorded by the Fawvor Brothers in 1929. It begins:
T'est petite chère et t'es mignonne,
T'es trop galeux pour faire ma femme;
T'es petite 'tit monde et t'es mignonne,
T'es trop jaloux 'tit monde mais je t'aime quand même.
[You're small and you're a sweetheart,
And shabby, but, I like you anyways,
Oh, girl, you're not clean,
Oh, well yes, girl, dear, you should go wash up.]
The Fawvor brothers (James on fiddle/vocals and Dudley on guitar/vocals) were anglophone musicians who had picked up French for playing to the predominantly Francophone audiences hear their home in Grand Chenier, in Cameron Parish (Texas). They negotiated a recording deal with a Columbia Records executive when they acted as guides during a coastal duck hunt, and were given an audition. Despite having limited French, the duo sang several songs in the language, passed the audition and were given a recording deal. James Fawvor played the fiddle with a Texas-style long bow on the recording (not the usual fiddle style heard on Cajun records), while both sang on the recording of "T'es Petite et T'es Mignonne"[1]. "Tippy Tee Tippy En" is a misspelled version of the title, recorded by Vincent Crawford and His Joy Boys (Khoury's K640-A, 45 RPM).
- ↑ Information from Ryan Andre Brasseaux, Cajun Breakdown: The Emeregence of an American-Made Music, 2009.