Annotation:J'ai passe devant ta porte
Tune properties and standard notation
J'AI PASSE DEVANT TO PORTE (I Passed in Front of Your Door). AKA and see "Mon Coeur T'Appelle." Cajun, Waltz. USA, southwestern Louisiana. D Major (Greenblatt): G Major (Francois). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The very popular old Cajun song expresses "grief at the unexpected death of a loved one...(it is) a much loved waltz (that) is an essential part of many Cajun musicians' repertoires" (Brown, 1983, p. 18). Raymond Francois (1990) relates that his father remembered the song being played at the time the Titanic sank, though the tune predated that disaster.
Source for notated version: Elton "Bee" Cormier and Raymond Francois (La.) [Francois].
Printed sources: Francois (Ye Yaille, Chere!), 1990; pp. 167-168. Greenblatt (The Cajun Fiddle Tune Book), 1985; p. 7.
Recorded sources: Bee Records BEE-104, Elton "Bee" Cormier.