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| This is "NOT" a Tignon it's aLouisiana Sharcropper wearing a sack full of Cane Sugar1930's |
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Madame
Caba
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The Tignon
a head dress of brilliant colors
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worn by Creoles, Mulatto and African/ American women. Madame Caba, and early Creole dancing song,
refers to the expression that the wearer of the tignon had followed
her own inclinations in matters of love regardless of conventions
and morals by singing 'your headdress fell,
' thus symbolizing
Madame Caba's fall from virtue. In this song the word tignon
takes the Creole form of tiyon.
Madame
Caba, tiyon vous tombe, |
Madame
Caba, you headdresses fell down, |
Madame
Caba, en sortant dibal, |
Madame
Caba, as you left the ball. |
Michie
Zizi, cet in vaillan nomme. |
Mister
Zizi, he's a handsome man. |
Michie
Zizi, cet in vaillan nomme. |
Mister
Zizi, he's a handsome man. |
Wa-ya,
ya-ya-ya, tiyon vous tombe! |
…your
headdress fell down! |
Wo-wo,
wo-wo, tiyon vous tombe! |
…your
headdress fell down! |
Wa-wa,
wa-wa, tiyon vous tombe! |
Etc,
etc. |
Wo-wo,
wo-wo, tiyon vous tombe! |
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Wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo,
tiyon vous temble! |
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Wa-ya,
wa-ya-ya-ya, tiyon vous tombe! |
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