The carriage song made me think...what was that?

http://theviewfromthisend.blogspot.com/

"Phil Harris singing Woodman Spare that Tree/Smoke Smoke that Cigarette, Jean Sablon singing Sur le Pont de Avignon/The Carriage Song, [which I loved so much. Did it foretell my future?] The Warsaw Concerto/ The Dream of Gerontius, and Richard Addinsall playingTchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.I. What riches for a child who had only ever heard hymns or the ringing of church bells."

So I found the 'official site' from WIKI...which gave me a TODDY site...in BLACK AND RED...who then told me that JEAN SABLON had been a 'vampire'...oooh, a real one from PARIS...aka INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE?

i then had a look for lyrics...such little information about a man who was so famous and probably still is, in French culture...anyway, I came across this website:

http://paroles.abazada.com/chanson,parce-que-je-vous-aime,19646.htm

i found the above song and remembered how COLETTE used to put it on her gramaphone a lot and we would dance to it...it was 'easy French' for me to learn, in song...perhaps that is how children learnt a language easily, by singing...

She was also explaining something about life to me...perhaps why she had stayed utterly devoted to that gay bastard of a husband...(even though as GILL says, she appeared to be more 'lesbian' than straight - certainly women-identified)...she actually really liked him...she figured that there was a real FRIENDSHIP going on there, whatever the actuality of it all was...or maybe she didn't care...she liked him - seeing him around made her happy and that was that...life can be simple.

Yes, you can have passion, romance and lust...but friendship is the most reassuring and life-affirming emotion of all...