| Summary: | A comparatively brief version of a paddling song in which a young man describes how he enticed a pretty girl to ride with him on the road from La Rochelle but how she tricks him into taking her home. This is a Canadian variant of a French song. Lafrote, C "CCF" I Chansons en Lasse [sp?] p. 352; Can, Daignault, Pierre "A La Quebecoise", #20; Mercer: Peacock "Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, p. 517; Gagnon, "Chansons populaires du Canada", pp. 155-156 (variant of "En Revenant de la jolie Rochelle"); D'Harcourt, M. et R. "Chansons Folklorique francais au Canada" 205 'M'en Revenant de la joli Rochelle'.
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