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Accidentally well dressed

from Mme Zin Zin by Dougie and the Tone Drifters

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French Translation: Bien Habillé Par Hazard

Two strangers, ardent Cajun music and dance lovers, are late to the dance hall and their quickly-thrown-together ensembles delight the Friday night crowd at the Joie de Vivre Café.

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Lyrics in English:

Late again, she plucked the short black, high rise, A-Line skirt
Slung from a hook on the back of the bedroom door
And dance-worn snakeskin cowgirl boots hid the mismatched socks
That she thought she’d wear again, just one time more

A pearl-snap shirt, soft white silk, wrinkled but pretty clean
Bracelets and earrings she got, from who knows where?
That hand-tooled leather belt that fit her hips, oh, so right
And jade barettes to fix her long, red, reckless hair

Well she paid the cover at the Joie de Vivre, late that Friday night
Heads all turned as one and quickly assessed, impressed
Many at the tables said they thought, well, she’d probably done her best
But all the quiet ones knew she was accidentally well-dressed.

Running late, he grabbed his faded ride-worn boot-cut jeans
His broke-in pair, the ones he always wore
He tugged on scuffed up goat-skin cowboy boots over white tube socks
Brushing cat hair off his hat walking out the old front door.

A clean white shirt, tails hanging out, cuffs turned up just twice.
The gold collar tips his daddy used to wear
The Stetson with the braided band, sweat-stained and creased just so
And angled left over his long blond, home-cut hair

Well they danced together at the Joie de Vivre, late that Friday night
They did the Whiskey River Jitterbug, all relaxed, unstressed
By the third waltz and second 2-step, the cynics all confessed
They were randomly perfectly, inadvertently, accidentally well-dressed
Fundamentally, incidentally, accidentally well-dressed

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from Mme Zin Zin, released August 31, 2021
(Music and Lyrics: Doug Schroeder, Jones Road Productions, BMI)
Vocals: Amelia Biere and Joel Breaux. Fiddle: Amelia Biere. Guitar: Scooter Jane Yerow. Pedal Steel: Blake Miller. Bass: Phil Kaelin. Drums: Jimmy Breaux.

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Dougie and the Tone Drifters Breaux Bridge, Louisiana

Doug Schroeder and Susanne Giezendanner live in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. They've been playing and performing Cajun music locally for about 15 years and Mme Zin Zin is their first pass at writing, performing and producing an album of original songs.

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