Jolie Louise
Daniel Lanois

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Ma jolie, how do you do? / Mon nom est Jean-Guy Thibault-Leroux
I come from east of Gatineau / My name is Jean-Guy, ma jolie
J'ai une maison a Lafontaine / where we can live, if you marry me
Une belle maison a Lafontaine / where we will live, you and me
Oh Louise, ma jolie Louise

Tous les matins au soleil / I will work 'til work is done
Tous les matins au soleil / I did work 'til work was done
And one day, the foreman said / "Jean-Guy, we must let you go"
Et pis mon nom, y est pas bon / at the mill anymore...
Oh Louise, I'm losing my head, I'm losing my head

My kids are small, 4 and 3 / et la bouteille, she's mon ami
I drink the rum 'till I can't see / It hides the shame Louise does not see
Carousel turns in my head, / and I can't hide, oh no, no, no, no
And the rage turned in my head / and Louise, I struck her down,
down on the ground I'm losing my mind, I'm losing my mind

En Septembre '63 kids / are gone, and so is Louise.
Ontario, they did go / near la ville de Toronto
Now my tears, they roll down, / tous les jours
And I remember the days, / and the promises that we made
Oh Louise, ma jolie Louise, ma jolie Louise.