"La Veuve De La Coulee" - The Empty Bottle Ramblers at Oldtone Music Fesival 2019

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The song La Veuve De La Coulee -"The Widows of the Creek", was originally released by the band Happy Fats and his Rayne-Bo Ramblers on Bluebird records in 1942. The Empty Bottle Ramblers performed this popular Cajun Hop on the Tweener Stage during the 2019 Oldtone Roots Music Festival in Hillsdale, NY.

Missy Roser & Erica Weiss sing harmony on this wonderful rendition, with Missy on fiddle, Erica on guitar, Tim Kness on accordion, Danny Birnbaum on bass, Zack Meyer on mandolin and Kit Garovoy on the T'fer.

Lyrics
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Tout les veuve de la coulée,
Sont partie au village,
Pour acheter de coton jaune a la boutique
Pour achter des coton jaune,
Pour fait des tite mémines,
Pour les belle tit coeur de coulée Kinney
Tout les veuve de la coulée,
Sont partie au village,
Pour acheter de coton jaune a la boutique.
Sont aller sur la coulée,
Sont aller sur la coulée,
Pour amener les belle tite fille la bas chez Joe.
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All the widows of the gully,
Are leaving to the village,
To buy yellow cotton at the shop.
To buy yellow cotton,
For making little bloomers,
For the pretty little girls of the Kinney gully.
All the widows of the gully,
Are leaving to the village,
To buy yellow cotton at the shop.
Going down the gully,
Going down the gully,
To bring the beautiful little girls down to Joe's.
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For more about the origins of this song:
http://earlycajunmusic.blogspot.com/2016/06/la-veuve-de-la-coulee-leroy-happy-fats.html

The Oldtone Roots Music Festival is held every September, learn more here:
https://www.oldtonemusicfestival.com/

You can find The Empty Bottle Ramblers on Facebook:
https://bit.ly/2lNOdcS

Video by Tim Kness © 2019