Tit Galop Pour Mamou

"Tit Galop Pour Mamou"
Single by The Balfa Brothers
from the album Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music, Vols. 1-2
Format LP record
Recorded 1965
Genre Cajun
Length 2:05
Label Swallow Records 6011, Swallow Records 6019

Tit Galop Pour Mamou (English: either Canter to Mamou or Giddy-Yap to Mamou) is a Cajun folk song with words and music by Dewey Balfa. The tune behind Joe South's "Games People Play" resembles the tune of "Tit Galop Pour Mamou" to some extent.

A recording of the song by Mamou Master was used on the soundtrack of the 1991 film Scorchers.[1] The song was also recorded as the title cut of a 1992 album by Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys.[2]

The album was first released 1965 and is considered Volume 1. Volume 2 was released in 1974 however, in 1994, both were re-released as a double album set. [3]

Content

The song’s narrator tells of a trip to the Louisiana town of Mamou, where he sells his mule and wagon for 15 cents to buy candies for children and sugar and coffee for older people.[4] [5]

References

  1. ↑ “Scorchers,” Theiapolis Cinema
  2. ↑ “Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys: Tit Galop Pour Mamou,” Amazon.com
  3. ↑ "Dewey Balfa & the Balfa Brothers - Play Traditional Cajun Music, Volume 1 & 2 CD" www.flattownmusic.com
  4. ↑ Cohn, Amy L and Molly Bang. “From Sea to Shining Sea”. Scholastic, 1993.
  5. ↑ “Old Music for New Ears,” The Kentucky Network www.ket.org
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