| Goodbye Joe, me gotta go,
me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh Son of a gun, we'll have good fun on the bayou. CHORUS: 'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-oh Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou. Thibodeaux, Fontainbleau, the place is buzzin'
FINAL CHORUS: 'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-oh Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou. Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou. Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou. Hank Williams
Sr.
J'ai pour allez moi tout seul Sur le bayou Ma Yvonne, la plu jolie Sur le bayou Tonnerre m'ecrase Un va avoir un bon temp Sur le bayou ----refrain---------- Par a soir moi j'va allez voir Ma cher ami-o Jouer l'guitar, boire de la jogue (cruche) Et faire de la musique Tonnerre m'ecrase Un va avoir un bon temp De sur le bayou Thibodeaux, Fontenot, la place apre sonner
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Hank Williams Sr copied
the musical melody from an earlier tune recorded in Cajun French called
"Grand Texas". Although Hank Williams used the earlier Cajun melody, the
words to the song that we know as "Jambalaya" was written by Hank Williams
Sr.
Jambalaya is the name for a variety of rice-based dishes common in Louisiana Cajun or Creole cooking. It may derive from the Spanish dish paella, although many other theories exist, including the notion that it is a combination of the words jambon (French for ham), à la (French for in the style of) and ya-ya (West African for rice). Generally, to prepare jambalaya one cooks rice in a stock with vegetables and meat. Rice forms the primary ingredient. The stock is flavored with the Holy Trinity of onions, bell peppers and celery, so called because they are widespread in Cajun cooking. The meat often consists of smoked sausage (Andouille or chorizo, for example) and can also include chicken, ham, seafood (such as shrimp or crawfish) and even alligator and turtle. Crayfish, sometimes called crawfish, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are closely related. A pirogue is a small, flat-hulled boat of a design associated particularly with West African fishermen and the Cajuns of the Louisiana marsh. Lewis and Clark had two piroques on their expedition. By the way you may pronounce bayou
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