Name: Sunday Saint-Quentin Blues
Duration: P00H03M28S
Description: We began co-writing this number in the Hotel Queen in the titular town, after the car lost a wheel on our way back from Gilles Losier’s 80th birthday party dans sa belle Acadie. Seeing as Gilles was instrumental in our predicament, we invited him to be instrumental on the song too. PH

Sunday Saint-Quentin Blues

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We began co-writing this number in the Hotel Queen in the titular town, after the car lost a wheel on our way back from Gilles Losier’s 80th birthday party dans sa belle Acadie. Seeing as Gilles was instrumental in our predicament, we invited him to be instrumental on the song too. PH

lyrics

Johnny Cash where are you now?
I’m on the second floor of the Queen Hotel
It’s Sunday night and we’re nowhere in sight
In the middle of Saint-Quentin

Dans ma chambre je sors mon blues harp
La nuite icite tout est muet comme une carpe
Puis les dimanches les garages sont fermés
Même les danseuses sont en congé !

Johnny Cash, I’m talkin’ to you
We didn’t think to stay, we were just passing through
But now we’re in the Queen Hotel
with the Sunday Saint-Quentin blues

Les gars sur leurs Harleys zigzagent le main drag
Les gamins en bécique nous trouvent une bonne blague :
L’homme avec sa tresse, puis l’autre avec sa barbe
Ils nous prennent pour un couple d’outardes

Perdus – mais non, c’qui c’est passé
sur la 180 nous avons frappé
des gros – énormes – nids de poule
pis le char roule pu, mais pantoute

In the window of the old town store
Where no one buys or sells anymore
The artificial girl holds an artificial rose
She maintains the same old pose

She’s been standing there forever, forever and a year
Just waiting for the annual Festival Western
Ça commence la semaine prochaine – on va-tu être là encore ?
Toute la ville est décorée de silhouettes noires

De cowboys et de cowgirls, de chevaux et chariots
Y’a des bottes de foin, y’aura même un rodéo
But I believe, Johnny Cash, tonight we all miss you
with the Sunday Saint-Quentin blues

Yeah I believe, Johnny Cash, tonight we all miss you
with the Sunday Saint-Quentin blues

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from Saint-Quentin, released October 2, 2020
P. Hutchinson & J. Kerkhoven, SOCAN 2018

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BluesReel is a harmonica-guitar duo inspired by the folk tradition from both sides of the Atlantic. Based in Montreal, BluesReel plays a compelling repertoire of traditional tunes, blues and original compositions. A bit of rawk and roll has also been known to creep in to the mix. ... more

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