MARTIN (LE MEUNIER)

MARTIN (LE MEUNIER)

sung by Richard Bastien
October 11, 1990, 6th concession, Rivière-aux-Canards
song by Cléophas Meloche
title also used: Le meunier et la belle (I. L-2)

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C’est un nommé Martin, au grand matin c’est levé

tiguedin

S’en va sur le meunier, le meunier son voisin.

Tiguedin-din-din
Que la roue tournée
Oh mic mic mic
Mon tique taque tac
Mon turlura
Tu moudris tu moudras
Tu moudras mon grain
Tu moudris tu moudras
Mon grain.

Je peux pas te le moudre, rien que demain matin

tiguedin

Meunier attell’ son âne, met z-au pied du moulin.

Meunier a pris t-une gaule de la queue jusqu’aux reins.

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Martin (le meunier), Brett Jubinville. Mailbox says Dr. Miller.

Martin (le meunier), Brett Jubinville. Miller working.

Commentaries :

This little song, sung by Richard Bastien, is probably only a fragment of a much longer song (since songs in the oral tradition weren’t written down, sometimes the words were lost). A man named Martin goes to see his neighbour, the miller. The miller hitches his donkey up to the grindstone but says he won’t have time to grind the grain until tomorrow. The long chorus imitates the sound the mill makes. In this type of song, the audience would repeat every line and join in on the chorus.

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