Unknown singer singing folk song;

Will Bolfa:

-L'échange de places dans le sac (conte) Le 'tit bougre poussait ses mouton et a changé de place avec celui dans le sac qui le roi voulait pour marier sa fille, mais il voulait pas. Le roi a noyé le bougre qui voulait marier sa fille. Appris cette histoire de son papa;
-Father told stories when they were young;
-Une conte qu'est pas trop propre: La fille, son 'tit frère et son prétendu. Le châpeau sur le petit oiseau;
-Le 'tit garçon avec la gueule sale (le poulet pour soupper). Donner la tête à son petit frère;

-Le même 'tit garçon et son 'tit chien (puppy) (5:22);

The life of a musician according to Will:
-Some like to get drunk, make love. Musicians have bad reputations;
-40 years Will's been playing music and 38 years he's married and still with his wife. A lot of musicians are no longer with their wives;
-Ordinary musicians have more of a chance being put in bad situations/temptations;
-Not all musicians are alike;
-3 brothers who play music, all still with their wives. Hadley Fontenot, Nathan Abshire;
-Others are no good, drunk, chase women, etc.;
-Will likes his family life;

-He does it for a little extra money (10:08);
-Farming didn't make a whole lot of money. Playing dances with brothers in 1945/46 for $5/person;
-Playing every night Mon.-Fri. Got paid $10 Sat. nights, better night;
-Playing as a trio;
-Vieux Model-A, jouer à Opelousas, Port Barré; Puis, il s'a acheté un '41 Ford;
-Will cut hair for 10 cents to get gas money and go to store. No $96-electricity bills back then;
-Will started playing fiddle when he was 12 years old;
-Always liked music. Singing with sticks;
-Buying Will a fiddle from an old neighbor who played a little. Traded a pig for the fiddle he learned on;
-When he got good enough to play dances, he ordered one for $9 from a book (Sears?). Still had it when he got married, then someone stole it;

-Déa Frugé vit toujours. Ville Platte (15:00);
-Fiddle had to be repaired and stayed on the porch to dry when someone stole it;
-Fiddle with head on it. Will went to have his fiddle fixed by a guy from Eunice, and he had a fiddle he wanted to sell. 2 fiddles, played both. $125 was too expensive. Came back, talked to his wife and went back after it. Label said it was made in 1720;
-Learned from friends/neighbors. Housedances/Fais-dodo. 10 cents to get in. Sometimes, Will didn't have the money to get in. Got in to give other musician friends a break. Before he got married;
-Stopped playing when he got married. Dewey learned on Will's fiddle and took it when Will got married;
-1945/46, Dewey and Hick (Hick's Wagon Wheel) got home, took a drink, told Will to pick up his fiddle. Hick wanted to hear Will and Dewey play together. Picked up his fiddle and played 2-3 songs. Hick wanted them to play Sat. in Ville Platte.

-Got a friend to play guitar (20:06);
-Played until 12 AM, each $5. When they finally decided to stop, they passed the hat and picked up more than what they made. Picking up and extra $4/5 for an extra hour. A lot of money back then. Sleep at his father's;
-Playing Sunday afternoons, races. Come back with $25/30. All acoustic, no amplification;
-Dewey went get amplifiers and started the band;
-No clubs, dancehalls. Played house dances with an accordion player, sometimes a guitar player. Joe Saucie? Havley de l'Anse Grise. Played with 3 accordion players that he can remember;
-Ches Fontenot de Mamou. Wasn't best accordion player, but got the job done;
-Nathan Abshire is the best in Will's eyes because he plays 'égale' and he likes Nathan. Played with a lot of accordion players. Milton Molitor was good when Will he young, but he didn't play 'égale' like Nathan Abshire and Maurice Berzas;

Bons chanteurs: Adam Landreneau, il jouait pas trop bien, mais il chantait haut (24:53);
-Chanter haut dans la musique cadienne;
-Can sing low now with microphones. Had to sing loud and high to be heard before amplification;
-Hadley Fonetnot chantait haut aussi;
-Plus besoin de chanter haut et fort;
-Déa Frugé was sought after, Ville Platte et Mamou. Playing on higher strings to be heard. Hard to hear lower strings acoustically. Accordion was louder than fiddles. -Sometimes dancers only saw when the song was over, they kept dancing after the song had stopped;
-'Jouer par des escousses'. Different patterns and turns. Nathan Abshire and Maurice Berzas have patterns of where they'll go. Some players cut time and don't have a pattern. Easy to follow Nathan;

-Playing festivals with other well-known accordion players. Playing with a Bruneau from Canada (30:30);
-Don't always use same accordion player. Sometimes Nonc Allie Young, Hadley Fontenot, Nathan Abshire;
-Dewey a été à Eunice? the first year;
-Will built his house himself, without thinking he could. He was given an old house and decided to undo it/clean the wood and build a new house. Bought another house and cleaned it. Started to collect bricks from old chimneys to make a brick house. 6 years from the time he started cleaning wood/bricks to the time he was able to move in. 16 months to actually build it after the bricks and woods were all cleaned. Built it on weekends. There's 2 years he's moved into it now;
-Bricks cost him $70 and wood cost him $300. Took more time than money to build the house;
-Bricks from old broken/burned down houses (35:05);
-$10 for an old chimney, bought 7 and picked up another 2 for free (12 total);
-Enough to cover the house and he has enough for an outdoor kitchen;
-Will likes his bricks, house. Better than flat bricks. Old bricks because they were cheap, not for the taste;
-Origins of 'La Valse des Balfa/Bolfa'. Son défunct père et grandpère jouait ça. Émasse, Will's grandfather, Sériah, great-uncle, played fiddle together. First Balfa Brothers;
-Will was 6 years old when his grandfather died. He remembers his grandfather coming play fiddle for him and his younger sister, Cécile, and she would dance;
-Thinks he played old songs;
-Father never had trouble with his wife. Will wrote the words himself (not the same words as his father);
-Will named it 'La Valse des Balfa' because it came from the family;

-Will wrote the words from an idea/imagination. He had friends who had marital troubles, not him (40:07);
-Story has to go with the tune. Sad tune, sad words;
-Will's wife wasn't too happy about the song, but it's just a song. Seems true/real;
-'La Danse des Mardi Gras' une chanson d'assemblé chanté partout ici;
-Vieilles danses comme 'Nonc Charlot' et 'Rosina';
-Vieilles contes. Tu pratiques pas et t'oublies;
-TV took the place of storytellers and visiters;
-Pin pi po lo rond (jeu d'enfant). Last one had to go hide and bringing them back by their big toe;

-Pigéon vole. Poule vole, canard vole, chat vole (vole pas) et celui qui avait le doigt levé avait pour dire qui c'était son boyfriend/sa belle (45:22);
-La Vieille Truie. Les 'tits graçons jouaient ça dehors avec des bâtons, tin can (la truie), des trous dans la terre. Rough game. Almost the same as (ice) hockey, same principle;
-Hurt when you got hit by stick;
-TV and toys for kids instead of playing outside;
-When they get older, they don't want to get out of the house and get a job. They get lazy;