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A French song mixed in with another French tune. We combined them for the most noble possible musical reason: because they have the same name. The song title means "I saw the wolf." The tune title goes two better with "I saw the wolf, the fox, and the weasel." What I saw these animals doing was having a rowdy dance party that I just thought I'd crash.

We learned the song from The Baltimore Consort and the tune from Malicorne.

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J'ai vû le loup, le renard, le lièvre
J'ai vû le loup, le renard cheuler
C'est moi-même que les ai r'beuillé

J'ai ouï le loup, le renard, le lièvre
J'ai ouï le loup, le renard chanter
C'est moi-même que les ai r'chigné

J'ai vû le loup, le renard, le lièvre
J'ai vû le loup, le renard danser
C'est moi-même que les ai r'viré

(I Saw the Wolf)

I saw the wolf, the fox and the hare
I saw the wolf and the fox drinking
It was I who spied upon them

I heard the wolf, the fox and the hare
I heard the wolf and the fox singing
It was I who snarled back at them

I saw the wolf, the fox and the hare
I saw the wolf and the fox dancing
It was I who spun them around

credits

from More Bad News .​.​., released June 18, 1996
(trad.)

with J'ai Vû le Loup, le Rénard, et la Bellette (trad.)

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Broadside Electric Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Broadside Electric is a five-piece electric folk band from Philadelphia, PA (US). They have earned a reputation for thoroughly original arrangements and painstaking research into traditional English, Celtic and Eastern European music. Broadside Electric has been at turns called “Pennsylvania’s answer to Steeleye Span” and “folk music’s answer to death metal.” ... more

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