Friday, November 01, 2002

La Toussaint
This is a great song fron La Toussaint by Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys (lyrics by David Greely)

Le premier de novembre, la Toussaint
On se met tout ensemble,
Mettre des fleurs sur les tombes
Pour rappeler et honorer nos ancetres,
Honorer leur travail et leur sagesse.

C’est assez d’etre enterre dans ces tombes.
Chers enfants, enterre-nous pas avec le train et de l’argent.
Accordez, accordez avec nous-autres,
Accordes et jouez quelque chose pour nous danser.


Wish you could actually hear this. The sweet melancholy tune makes me want to do more than just pray for the dead. Though prayer may be what I’m limited to. It is awfully cold here to picnic in the cemetery and the lovely custom of white-washing the family tomb just wouldn’t play out on the discreet, ground-flush bronze markers that mark the family graves at Wisconsin Memorial Park.

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