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Maria Gargiulo
Other versions add dramatics, "style", or orchestration, the lyrics speak for themselves. This interpretation is how we learned it in English speaking school in the original French language from a teacher who translated and explained the meaning of the song. This is how I remember it from the Fifties, and today feel the same tristesse thinking of the treatment toward Louis Riel and of my own Acadian ancestors.