[Dixielandjazz] Eh! La Bas! Info

[dingle at baldwin-net.com]

Luís Henriques wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am looking for information about the tune "Eh la bas".  I know that
>the lyrics are in some kind of dialect -- any information about this?
>Who composed it?  And the lyrics?  Can anyone provide it?  And it would
>also be nice same translation :)
>
>Thanks a lot!
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>It is Cajun greeting -- as if you see someone across the street and shout out to him with that greeting.
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It is Acadian French dialect used by the French  that were evicted by 
the British fron what is now Nova Scotia and  ended up in Louisiana.
Nappy LaMare of the old Bob Crosby Bobcats used to sing it, and he said 
it mean soething like "Hey over there."
Thedialect, then, is Cajun French.
Don Ingle