"Vien A La Maison Avec Moi" - Percy Babineaux & Bixy Guidry

"You'll Come Home With Me!" Adolph "Bixy" Guidry was born in the rural area around Cankton, Louisiana.  He showed a strong affinity for music from an early age. According to music researcher Ron Brown, "one day he nailed a strap to each end of a board for his thumb and fingers respectively and hammered nails along the middle portion to simulate accordion notes."  A few years later he mother bought him his own accordion which he quickly mastered and by his late teens, Bixy was playing house dances. Before long, he teamed up with Carencro musician Percy Babineaux.1   

(Moi) j'connais pas tu mérite,

Ça t'as fait avec mon chère,

Moi j'connais, t'prends ça dur,

Chère 'tite fille, chère, t'as fait (ça).

Moi, j'connais,

Tu mérite pas, d'être (........)

Mais, tu, tu ne plus tu va venir,

Avec ton nègre à la maison.

Tu jamais,

D'être malheureuse,

C'est pas la peine que tu veins,

Tu pleures quand t'ai ton nègre, 

Chère 'tite fille, rappelle-toi les misères,

Tu m'a fait, j'mon aller.

Adolph "Bixy" Guidry

The waltz, "Vien A La Maison Avec Moi (You'll Come Home With Me)", was recorded during a RCA Victor session in New Orleans in 1929 (#22210).  Adolph "Bixy" Guidry and Percy Babineaux, an accordion-fiddle duo, cut eight sides in one session for the Victor company.  In some listings, he's known as "Dixie" Guidry. 

I don't know you deserve,

All that you've done to your dear sweetheart,

I know, you take it hard,

Dear little girl, dearie, you have done that.

I, myself, know,

You don't deserve to be miserable

Well, you, you won't return again,

To your man at the house.

You (should) never,

Be miserable,

It's not worth it that you return,

You cry when you have your man,

Dear little girl, remember all the miseries,

You did to me, I'm going.

Recordings such as this are based on much older melodies that inspired other songs, such as Angelas Lejeune's "Valse De Pointe Noire", Fawvor Brother's "La Valse De Creole", and Amede Ardoin's "La Valse Du Ballard".  Several post-war recordings contain the melody such as Floyd Leblanc's "Brow Bridge Waltz", Abe Manuel's "Ville Platte Waltz" and most notably Nathan Abshire's "Kaplan Waltz".

1. Let Me Play This For You : Rare Cajun Recordings.  Ron Brown.  Liner notes.
2. Lyrics by Herman M

Release Info:

BVE-56494-2 Vien A La Maison Avec Moi (You'll Come Home With Me) | Victor 22210

BVE-56495-2 J'vai Jouer Celea Pour Toi (I'll Play This For You) | Victor 22210

Find: 

Let Me Play This For You: Rare Cajun Recordings (Tompkins, 2013)

"J'vai Jouer Celea Pour Toi (I'll Play This For You)" - Bixy Guidry & Percy Babineaux

It's the original "J'Ai Ete au Bal".    Along with John Bertrand and Milton Pitre's "The Rabbit Stole The Pumpkin" recording for Paramount in Chicago, these two songs influenced several tunes throughout Cajun music for time to come. 

The instrumental, "J'vai Jouer Celea Pour Toi (I'll Play This For You)", was recorded during a RCA Victor session in New Orleans in 1929 (#22210).  Adolph "Bixy" Guidry and Percy Babineaux, an accordion-fiddle duo, cut eight sides in one session for the Victor company.  In some listings, he's known as "Dixie" Guidry.  According to Nathan Salsburg, curator of the Alan Lomax Archive: 

Inauspiciously issued in the second year of the Depression, their first releases sold poorly. Surviving copies—to say nothing of surviving playable copies—are laughably scarce.  They show Guidry and Babineaux to be an intoxicatingly loose and ragged pair, Bixy's accordion sighing mournfully behind Percy’s keening fiddle. 

It's origins are much older.  According to Raymond Francois says he believe it is related to the songs "Oh Susannah" and "Get Along Cindy".1  In 1934, Joe Falcon and Cleoma Breaux use the melody for their Decca recording of "Ne Buvez Plus Jamais".  This original melody may have also influenced Lawrence Walker's "Jolie (Johnny) Can't Dance".   However, it's most dominant influence can be found in Iry Lejeune's 1954 recording of "I Went To The Dance" for Eddie Shuler's Goldband Records in Lake Charles. 

1. Ye Yaille Chere, Traditional Cajun Dance Music by Raymond E. François
2. https://roothogordie.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/let-me-play-this-for-you/

Find:
Le Gran Mamou: A Cajun Music Anthology - The Historic Victor–Bluebird Sessions 1928–1941 Vol. 1 (Country Music Foundation, 1990)
Cajun Country, Vol. 2, More Hits from the Swamp (JSP, 2005)
Let Me Play This For You : Rare Cajun Recordings (Tompkins Square, 2013)