Derriere Chez Nous (Behind Our House)

DESCRIPTION: French. Behind our house is a tree. On the tree is a branch. On the branch is a nest. In the nest is an egg. In the egg is a small bird. In this bird you do not know what there is. The shanty version is sexual in nature
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1948 (Creighton-MaritimeFolkSongs)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage nonballad bird bawdy
FOUND IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Creighton-MaritimeFolkSongs, p. 169, "Derriere Chez Nous" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill-SongsOfTheSea, p. 107, "Derriere Chez Nous" (2 texts, French and English, 1 tune; although the story of this is not the same as the Canadian folksong, they clearly come from the same original)
SAME TUNE:
cf. "The Rattling Bog" (theme)
File: CrMa169

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