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Bayou Boy
(written by Rhonda Bolin Lohmeyer)
Way down deep in the Lousiana swamp
Where the sun don't ever shine
There's a long-haired boy fishing on the bayou
He's got my heart on the line
He's got coal black hair, blue eyes as a soft shell
A red hot cajun heart
And you know tonight he'll be heading my way
And he won't be afraid of the dark
Who's that walking through the swamp tonight
Slipping by the gators in the pale moonlight
Coming my way to make me feel just right
It's my bayou boy, bayou boy
The days are long as a shrimpboat's trawl
And they drag into the night
The nights are warm as the Delta sun
And as free as a Yankee dime
And I'm just sitting with my rat-tail fan
In the land of the cajun moon
Waiting for a sign that he made a catch
And he'll be coming home real soon
Who's that walking through the swamp tonight
Slipping by the gators in the pale moonlight
Coming my way to make me feel just right
It's my bayou boy
Who's that walking through the swamp tonight
Slipping by the gators in the pale moonlight
Coming my way to make me feel just right
Way down deep in the Lousiana swamp
Where the sun don't ever shine
There's a long-haired boy fishing on the bayou
Someday's he's gonna be mine
He's got coal black hair, blue eyes as a soft shell
A red hot cajun heart
And you know tonight he'll be heading my way
And we won't be afraid of the dark
Who's that walking through the swamp tonight
Slipping by the gators in the pale moonlight
Coming my way to make me feel just right
It's my bayou boy, bayou boy, bayou boy
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One might say that jazz is the Concentration of the New Orleans music developed by the Creoles, occuring at a time when ragtime, blues, spiritual music, and marches were converging. Jazz was a style of playing which drew from all of these and presented an model based on a concept of collective, rather than solo, improvisation.
Ultimately, New Orleans players such as Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet developed a new approach which emphasized solos, but they both began their careers working in the collective format, evident in the early recordings by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Kid Ory's Sunshine Orchestra , the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, and King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
Armstrong's impact became apparent with the popularity of his Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, redirecting everyone's imagination toward inspired solos. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, community connections such as "jazz funerals" in which brass bands performed at funerals held by benevolent associations continued to underline the role of jazz as a part of everyday life. Jazz may have been a luxury (entertainment) in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, but in New Orleans it was a necessity--a part of the fabric of life in the neighborhoods, in the people, and in the heritage. And it still is, and it always will be.
Zydeco on the other hand, is usually very lively, what with the accordians and fiddles, playing those familiar reels that make your feet just move by themselves.
Just listening to cajun music brings one to life from the inside and out.
It can be said that Cajun music was invented by the happiest of people.
The ones that enjoy life, and expect the best.
The ones that breathe every note and live by the words.
Music is the heart of the soul.
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Lousiana Music Links
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