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Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” cover on the Accordion

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:23:18 +0000

Here is the hit song “Tik Tok,” accordion-style!!! I arranged it all by ear!

Duration : 0:3:32

Sautez ‘tit Filles – cajun accordion – Johnson Boys

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:09:15 +0000

Back in the US civil war the warmakers, as their kind always does, used the help of local ruthless criminals to terrorize and suppress the local population. Jayhawkers they’re called sometimes. Ozeme Carriere, a Creole bandit turned scout was such an illustrious feller in Louisiana, recruited by a captain in the rebel army … this song & similar storyline came to be inspired by “Johnson Boys”, a traditional old time country song & tune. Thanks, Pauline Groenendijk, from the Cajun Company and Dowell Lafleur for your help with the lyrics:

Sautez ‘tit Filles © Artspurg 2008 SABAM

Ozeme Carriere il amait la femme
Aimé toutes les jolies filles
Il a vie une vie rapide
Jusqu’aux jours d’ la guerre civile

chorus:
Sautez ‘tit filles, ayez pas peur (2x)

Il était un bougre méchant
En effet un grand vaurien
Voleur de tout dedans le monde
Et empêché par un capitaine

Ozeme s’est rasembler une bande
Pour éviter d’être attraper
Comme d’éclaireurs de l’armée rebelle
Ils ont volé bien plus dans le comté

Ozeme a eu un bon Carriere
Jusqu’à sa dernière heure
Ils l’ont donné ça qui lui revient
Sautez ‘tit filles, ayez pas peur.

Duration : 0:2:38

Pegleg Breakdown – Cajun Accordion

admin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:05:14 +0000

- a composition from astro or Nout Grupstra – inspired by a dancing feller with a wooden leg and the soulful accordion playing of Tracy Schwarz – key of G on a C accordion made by Jr.Martin with his fabulous bellydancing crayfish to boot – all © artpurg SABAM 2008 – see: http://www.crooks-stringband.nl and http://www.astromusic.org for more -

Duration : 0:2:17

I’ll Get By – Melodeon, or Cajun Accordion

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:00:34 +0000

Quick and dirty recording by Astro, or Nout Grupstra, from stringband the Crooks. All © ARTSPURG, SABAM 2007. Please see www.astromusic.org or www.crooks-stringband.nl for further information …… note; people keep asking me: my C-accordion was built by Marc Savoy early 2007.

Lyrics:

I’ll Get By
Artspurg 2007 SABAM

Met a gal, and I can’t dance,
At the bar, I stood my chance,
Got so drunk, lost my touch,
Poor old me, she was too much,
But we’ll get by

My old dad told me one day,
Son, don’t you throw your life away
Only thing now I can say
My life sucks, anyway
I’ll get by

Early up, I went down town,
Got so drunk my face fell down,
Lots of strangers there and then,
Someone dragged me home again,
So I’ll get by

Got lots of friends when I was rich
But I got wed to a mean old
All day long she nags & shouts
By the hair I threw her out
I’ll get by

Since I’m poor, who cares for me?
But fair is fair as I can see
Won’t you all just let me be?
Walk the line, it works for me
I’ll get by

Duration : 0:2:16

Down in the Bayouland – Melodeon, or Cajun Accordion

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:41:34 +0000

A new song, based on a common folk-tale from the Carribean, played bare bones and in need of a fiddle too, by Astro, or Nout Grupstra, from stringband the Crooks. All © ARTSPURG, SABAM 2007. Please see http://www.astromusic.org or http://www.crooks-stringband.nl for further information …… the used C-accordion was built by Marc Savoy early 2007.

Lyrics:

- Down in the Bayou land, –
once lived a man –
Appellé Monsier Boudain, had a Cajun Band –
One day the wife she left, she had enough –
But he fiddles on; Cajuns are tough –
– – –
Il a tenu, le joi de vive –
Bought a little ape, for the lonely eve –
When he left the house, on a working day –
Ape stole the violin; it’s the monkey’s way –
– – – –
As Boudain came home, the ape was gone –
Perché sur le toit, et joue le violon –
Fierce was his bowing hand, he played for two –
A scié le violon, quite through and through –
– – –
And so Monsieur Boudain, il a pas tout –
Took a sawn-off gun’, and aimed to shoot –
Now with the monkey gone, et le violon –
Happily the wife returned, dedans la maison –
– – –
Down in the Bayou land, pendant la nuit –
Sometimes a fiddle’s heard, and you won’t sleep –
Now a story grows, day by day –
It’s a monkey’s ghost, ça c’est la vérité –
– – – – – – – – – -

Duration : 0:3:1

Can’t See You Anymore – Melodeon, or Cajun Accordion

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:11:22 +0000

- Written by Astro, or Nout Grupstra, from stringband the Crooks. All © ARTSPURG, SABAM 2007. Please see http://www.astromusic.org Performed by Astro, or Nout Grupstra, from stringband the Crooks. All © ARTSPURG, SABAM 2007. Please see http://www.astromusic.org or http://www.crooks-stringband.nl for contact more information …… note; people keep asking me: my C-accordion was built by Marc Savoy early 2007 -

Duration : 0:1:48