{"id":1396,"date":"2009-12-15T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:05:42","slug":"jeanines-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Jeanine’s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been following the wonderful unpacking of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music<\/b> at The Old, Weird America<\/a>, and the project is now up to #31, the Cajun number “La Danseuse” by Delma Lachney & Blind Uncle Gaspard. Usually the compiler (gadaya, “a young french guy who loves to mentally travel through time and space by listening to some records”) provides variants of each tune, but he notes for #31 that he had found none. As I listened to the original, I immediately thought of “Jeanine’s Dream” from the out-of-print Stampfel and Weber LP Going Nowhere Fast (1981) and sure enough it’s the same tune: first bit<\/a>. The lyrics (by Antonia) are wonderful, and not readily available:<\/p>\n

In a trunk on the attic floor
\nThe record lay 40 years or more
\n‘Til Jeanine came to poke about
\nIn the attic she pulled it out
\nShe decided to let it play
\nUnplayed music will waste away
\nSo it spun on the old machine
\nIt put her feet in a dancing dream
\nShe was Queen of the Ball
\nHer surroundings fell away
\nAnd she danced in a fairy carnival
\nOut of lost time<\/p>\n

\nThe record player was turned up loud
\nAs she danced with the fairy crowd
\nA mean old grandma who lived next door
\nHeard the racket and called the law
\nThe record player was still turned high
\nWhen the new rookie cop came by
\nJeanine came dancin’ up to the door
\nShe let him in and she danced some more
\nFirst he stared as she danced
\nThen the music that was playing caught him in its spell
\nAnd so he danced with her<\/p>\n

\nGrandma came in and hollered “Stop!
\nThis crazy music and crazy cop!”
\nBut Jeanine didn’t seem to hear
\nThen the music caught Grandma’s ear
\nShe remembered those bygone days
\nAnd how she danced while the fiddle played
\nSo she left them and went to bed
\nWith the tune playing in her head
\nAnd she danced in her dreams
\nWith her husband one more time
\nAnd the record he had bought for her
\nSpun on ’til dawn<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

see a Robert Christgau piece<\/a> (1999) and Wikipedia on The Holy Modal Rounders<\/a> for more background; the truly obsessed will seek out the DVD The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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