Annotation:Valse à Tante Aleen (La)

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VALSE À TANTE ALEEN, LA (Aunt Aleen's Waltz). Cajun, Waltz and Two-Step. USA, southwestern Louisiana. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB(Vocal)AABBAA(Vocal)AABB. Related songs, according to Raymond François (1990), are Iry LeJeune's "Viens m' Chercher]," Dewey Balfa's "Je Suis Orphelin," "L'Orphelin" (in Irene Whitfield's book) and "Valse des Musiciens."

Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee

Source for notated version: fiddler Dennis McGee, accordion player Amédé Ardoin (La.) [Francois].

Printed sources: Francois (Yé Yaille, Chère!), 1990; pp. 276-277.

Recorded sources: Swallow Records SW-6030, Dennis McGee.




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