Annotation:Valse de Carencro

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VALSE DE CARENCRO (Carencro Waltz). AKA - "T'as Vole Mon Idee" (You Stole My Mind), "Valse de Prairie Ronde" (Prairie Ronde/Rhonde Waltz). Cajun, Waltz. USA, Louisiana. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Carencro is a town just north of Lafayette, Louisiana. The town's curious name derived from the buzzards abundent in the region when it was unsettled, perhaps, speculates Raymond Francois (1990) because a buzzard rookery was located there. In due course 'carrion crow', or buzzard, became 'Carencro' in among both French and English speaking people. A related song is Aldus Roger's "Valse a Alida". It was a signature tune of Cajun fiddler Cheese Read, who recorded it as “Prairie Ronde Waltz.”

Source for notated version: Leopold Francois (the father of Raymond Francois, who called the tune "T'as Vole Mon Idee") [Francois].

Printed sources: R. Francois (Yé Yaille, Chère!), 1990; p. 62.

Recorded sources: Swing Cat 1612, “Al Berard & Friends” (appears as “Prairie Rhonde”).

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