ALLONS DANSER COLINDA

This song was recorded in 1940 by "Doc" Oran Guidry and "Happy Fats" Leroy LeBlanc . This old tune and one tune "Madame Young has almost the same tune but different words to it. There is a story that this song dates back many years to the black population in the New Orleans area. It was forbidden to be danced because of it's assocation with voodoo.
I don't know about the story being true but the title does come from that old dance. It's a good thing these old ladies didn't know that.

Allons Danser Colinda
pour faire fa-che les vellies femmes!
In the old days (my time) there were almost as many mothers at the dance as girls. There were benches lined up on each side of the dance floor with the mothers sitting and watching the young girls. The girls never had a place to sit the mothers took care of that. I guess that's why we danced, no place to sit so you might as well dance. This tradition carried into the late 1950s. When I started going to dance halls (thats what they were called) in the fifties this was still going on. There were not as many moms as in the early years but still enough of these old ladies there to go back and tattle on you if you misbehaved. Some of the words of this song are "lets dance Colinda while you mother is not there and make the old ladies mad"!

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