Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on April 7th 2005 by stomlin.
This tune has been added to 51 tunebooks.
Also known as Le Bonhomme Et La Bonne Femme, Le Viellard Et La Vielle Dame.
X: 1
T: Old Man And The Old Woman
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:Bc|dedB GBdB|cdcB A3d|fgfe dfaf|gage d2Bc|
dedB GBdB|cdcB A3d|fgfe dfaf|g2gfg2:|
|:Bc|dg2f g2fe|df2e f2ed|ce2 de2 dc|BABcd2Bc
|dg2f g2fe|df2e f2ed|ce2 de2 dc|BGAFG2:|
New tune?
I was very surprised I could not find this tune in the library. Perhaps it is listed under another name. However it is common tune in Newfoundland.
# Posted on April 7th 2005 by stomlin
it is also a popular tune in the acadian area of PEI and New Brunswick
# Posted on April 7th 2005 by stickson007
I've heard Frank Maher (of St John's) play this one, but it doesn't appear to be on his new album. Has anyone else recorded it?
# Posted on April 8th 2005 by Sol Foster
I know that this tune is popular in the Ottawa Valley and Quebec. The music can be found in the Don Messer collection.
# Posted on April 10th 2005 by luv2fiddle
2 French names for the tune
It's listed on JC's Tunefinder under both "le viellard et la vielle dame" and "le bonhomme et la bonne femme" in the key of D.
# Posted on April 11th 2005 by vonnieestes
Le Bonhomme et la Bonne femme
This is a very old song composed and recorded in 1930 by Mary Travis dite «La Bolduc», the first author-composer-singer of French Canada (from Newport, gaspesia, province of quebec).
Links:
http://www.labolduc.qc.ca/
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/14402.mp3
# Posted on June 3rd 2005 by manouche