Kan mo té piti  (Lamizik en Kouri-Vini Lalwizyan)
Channel: Benoît LeBlanc
Date: 2020-04-07

Kan mo té piti (Other title : Mô shè ami) by Paul Barbarin and his New Orleans Band
Vocals by pianist Lester Santiago

Jazz in New Orleans - The Fifities - Streets of the City                            
Mike Dine Limited 504 Records
504 CD 9 (issued in 1995) (recorded in 1953)
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Kan moté piti
Ma manman di mwin
Koubiyon pwason
Çé kichòj ki bon

Ah ya yay
Mo té linmé dé bon riban
Ah ya yay
Mo té linmé dé bon jipon
Ah ya yay 
Mo té linmé dé bon korsé
Ah ya yay
Mo té linmé dé bon soulyé

Kan moté piti – mô shé ami
Ma manman di mwin
Koubiyon pwason
Çé kichòj ki bon

Ah ya yay
Mo té linmé bèl malékos *
Ah ya yay
Mo té linmé bèl grishinband
Ah ya yay 
Mo té linmé dé bèl déba
Ah ya yay
Mo té linmé dé bèl moushwa

* Malekos : Un tissu écossais à carreaux que les femmes créoles
aimaient porter comme tignon, écharpe, ceinture et tablier.
Seuls les vieux Créoles du Bayou Lacombe, de l'autre côté du lac
Pontchartrain, connaissent encore ce mot (Jim Viator).

When I was a child
My mama told me 
Fish broth
That is something good

Ah yah yay
I love your beautiful ribbon
Ah yah yay
I love your beautiful skirt
Ah yah yay
I love your beautiful girdle
Ah yah yay
I love your beautiful shoes

When I was a child
My mama told me 
Fish broth
That is something good

Ah yah yay
I love your beautiful malekos*
Ah yah yay
I love your grecian bend
Ah yah yay
I love your beautiful socks (stockings)
Ah yah yay
I love your beautiful handkerchief

* Malekos: It refers to a bright Scotch-plaid cloth that Creole women favored for their tiyons and sashes and aprons. Only the old Creoles across Lake Pontchartrain in Bayou LaCombe still know that word (James Viator).
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IMAGE CREDITS**

"Exterior facade, Bourbon and St. Peter streets"
Photograph by Richard Koch (1889-1971)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
SourceL http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/la0135.photos.073038p/

Bourbon Street sign and balcony ironworks: 
New Orleans by Stuart M. Lynn, page 107
Bonanza Books, New York, 1949
a division of Crown Publishers inc.
-1979.325.7339 / The Original Creole Orchestra
The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection at 
The Historic New Orleans Collection,
1979.89.7339
Source: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A9616

The John Robichaux Orchestra of New Orleans, 
1896 (photographer unknown)
Courtesy: "New Orleans Jazz, A Family Album" by Rose & Souchon, Page 179
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Robichaux_Orchestra_1896.jpg
jz001647 Title: Paul Barbarin Band
Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection
1978.118(B).07784
Source: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsm-jaz%3A1512 

jz000366 Title: Paul Barbarin 
(on drums, playing 'Tiger Rag'. Dated 1952 in pen on reverse)
Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection
1978.118(B).00315
Source: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsm-jaz%3A1231

King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra, Houston Texas
courtesy of The Center for American History, 
The University of Texas at Austin
The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection, image number, 05020
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jazzing_orchestra_1921.png
Photographer: Robert Runyon (1881-1968), 1921

Paul Barbain and Band at at Tom Anderson's Cafe, 1921
The bandstand at Tom Anderson's, Rampart Street, Storyville, 1919
Paul Barbarin, Arnold Metoyer, Luis Russel, Willie Santiago, Albert Nicholas
Page 225, NEW ORLEANS JAZZ: A FAMILY ALBUM by Al Rose and Edmond Souchon
1921 – Basin & Iberville Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana

Detroit Alabama Jass Band hk002558
Courtesy of the E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library
Source: https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A213258

HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY Richard Koch, Photographer, October, 1936 Gallery corner, looking north-east on orleans street - Le Pretre Mansion, 716 Dauphine Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Source: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/hhh.la0024.photos.072769p/

A vista through iron lace, New Orleans 
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942
Genthe photograph collection, Plate 041 Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Source: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/agc.7a02818/?co=agc

NEW ORLEANS, ca. 1923 -  National Archives and Records Administration, Ford Motor Company
Courtesy: Public.Resource.Org (https://archive.org)

Jazz Band on Truck  ca. 1920s.
The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center
Moore County, North Carolina, ca. 1920s Tufts Archives, Pinehurst, NC 
Source: https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/2880?ln=en#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&r=0&xywh=222%2C568%2C1016%2C544
 
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