Everyone in New Orleans knows the essential Mardi Gras songs. The likes of “Carnival Time,” “Mardi Gras Mambo,” “Go To the Mardi Gras,” “Big Chief” and “Second-Line, Pt. 1” are as baked into the ...
The old Creole song “Chère, mo lemmé toi” is a sweet love song, if a little dramatic. In English, the tune’s first verse ends simply as the singer says, “With all my heart, I love you,” before the ...