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Cajun Flood I wrote this song to teach myself something about mandolin. I fear that
any real mandolin player will hear me and say, "Now there's a novice!"
That confession aside, the song tells the story of a big storm blowing into
the bayou and flooding out a parish-full of Cajuns, who treat the whole mess
as an excuse to have a party. I guess Louise's line, as they float out to sea,
sums up the spirit in many Southerners that I most admire: "Pass the wine
and try to hurry/All this water's made me thirsty." No matter
how bad life gets, a few make the best of things and somehow manage to retain
a sense of humor. That seems especially true of Cajuns. After floating all the
way from Canada to Louisiana, what's a few more miles to the Gulf? The end of
the song repeats the early refrain, "S'il pleur tous les jours, je m'en
fou " The song concludes with the theme from "Okeefenokee", which,
I suppose is my attempt to tie together the beginning and end of my dreambook
- the inner chapters bounded by a preface, "Invocation", and epilogue,
"Lullaby for Ruth". Just about everybody who sings on this CD, sings on this song: Eloisa, John Toebbe, Tom Gould, Scott, Jennifer, Julia, me doing about four tracks: it was a minor nightmare for poor Mark, the engineer, but he somehow mixed the mess together. I don't know what else to say except, "Salute the cajuns and anybody anywhere who can float his or her way out of troubles." |