C'est L'aviron - Traditional French Canadian Song

This is a song off of my new album, 'The Waters That Bind' - https://www.adamruzzo.com/album/2509593/the-waters-that-bind

This is an OLD paddling song that goes back to the days of fur trading and voyageurs in Canada. Certain phrases in the song have been traced back to 15th-century France, where it originated. Songs like this were sung with voices only as the men paddled ALL day long, in a way to lift spirits and break the monotony of the long days. When I'm out in the wild areas of Canada I often imagine hearing the old voices of these people echoing around the fresh water lakes and rivers.

This is the first French song I've ever recorded, and certainly not the last! Folk songs like this from Quebec, Canada are amazing. The images in the video are of my time in old Quebec city and the nature shots are from around Quebec and Ontario.

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TRANSLATION TO ENGLISH:
(The verses repeat a lot, here's the general)
Returning from Rochelle
I encountered three pretty young ladies.
I chose the prettiest, who got on my saddle behind me.
We rode one hundred leagues without talking
until she asked for a drink.
I took her to a spring,
where she refused to drink.
I took her to her father's home,
Where she drank glass after glass
And toasted to the health
Of her mother and father,
And the one she loved.

Chorus
it is the oar (or rowing) that leads us
it's the oar (or rowing) that takes us to the top

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