Angel's Voices

Great Quebec Song!

This group is from Quebec. As some of you know, I'm a huge fan of Quebec. My dear husband is a native of Montreal and we visit there often. Here is a more detailed description of this group from the combox over at The Crescat:

Here is a blurb about the band from good ol' wikipedia:

Mes Aïeux (My ancestors) is a French-Canadian folk music group, founded in 1996.

Although they are labeled as leaders of the "neo-traditional" movement in Quebec, they frequently use subjects and characters from traditional Quebecois folklore (the devil, the chasse-galerie, the shepherdess, the coureur des bois, drinking songs, etc.) in order to approach modern themes with a sense of humor.

An alternate translation of the lyrics, sharpened slightly from the ones I posted on Mary Kochan's Catholicexchange.com blog:

Your great-great-grandmother, she had fourteen enfants/

Your great-grandmother, had near the same amount/

Your grandmother had three, and found that sufficient/

Your mother just had you, and you were an accident/

And as for you, my girl, you go from man to man/

And when things go wrong, you have an abortion/

Sometimes you wake in tears, in the early light of dawn/

On nights you'd dreamt of your home, packed full with your children....