Dans Tous Les Cantons (Through All the Country 'Round)

DESCRIPTION: French: The song notes how boys and girls are often talking of marriage... then highlights all the troubles they will face. The woman must scrub, cook, sew, and obey her husband; the man will find that his wife nags and spends his money
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1865
KEYWORDS: marriage humorous husband wife foreignlanguage
FOUND IN: Canada(Que)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Fowke/Johnston-FolkSongsOfCanada, pp. 113-115, "Dans Tous Les Cantons (Through All the Country 'Round)" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Edith Fowke and Richard Johnston, _Folk Songs of Quebec (Chansons de Quebec)_, Waterloo Music Company, 1957, pp. 83-85, "Dans Tous les Cantons (Through All the Country 'Round)" (1 French text plus English translation, 1 tune)
File: FJ113

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