Youpe! Youpe! Sur la Rivière!

DESCRIPTION: French: "Youpe! Youpe! sur la riviere, Vous ne m'entendez guere." The singer and Francois call upon Gauthier; they visit his girlfriend Delima. She rejects him as untrue; "You tell your little Jeremie the same things." The friends leave uproariously
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1865
KEYWORDS: courting rejection foreignlanguage
FOUND IN: Canada(Que)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Fowke/Johnston-FolkSongsOfCanada, pp. 62-64, "Youpe! Youpe! Sur la Rivière!" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Edith Fowke and Richard Johnston, _Folk Songs of Quebec (Chansons de Quebec)_, Waterloo Music Company, 1957, pp. 45-47, "Youpe! Youe! Sur la Rivière!" (1 French text plus English translation, 1 tune)
NOTES [56 words]: Fowke writes, "Of all the paddling songs, [this] is the most thoroughly Canadian. Its hero is not a prince... but a habitant lad who goes to call on this girl and is rebuffed for being too fickle. It was especially popular among French-Canadian lumberjacks who adapted to their own use an earlier song called 'Le p'tit bois d'l'ail.'" - RBW
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File: FJ062

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