it snowed in Port-au-Prince

[Jean Pierre]

it is a 1968 song by Quebec singer Jean Pierre Ferland, a visionary at the time of the climate change we now know.
The song whose title is "I'm coming home", begins with this sentence"...It snowed in Port-au-Prince..."

That's why I dedicate this cover to all my Haitian friends from Haiti and elsewhere (Florida, Canada, Quebec...)
I did the singing and instruments Auto Harp, folk guitar, electric guitar, bass, harmonica, percussion, only the electric piano and piano are from BIAB

the snow images are of my little village in Savoie, France where it snows less and less often in winter!

the lyrics are in the box with the translation

..et la video sur you tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s74YbAnKpxg

Il a neigé à Port-au-Prince
Il pleut encore à Chamonix
On traverse à gué la Garonne
Le ciel est plein bleu à Paris
Ma mie l'hiver est à l'envers
Ne t'en retourne pas dehors
Le monde est en chamaille
On gèle au sud, on sue au nord

Fais du feu dans la cheminée
Je Reviens Chez Nous
S'il fait du soleil à Paris
Il en fait partout

La Seine a repris ses vingt berges
Malgré les lourdes giboulées
Si j'ai du frimas sur les lèvres
C'est que je veille à ses côtés
Ma mie, j'ai le coeur à l'envers
Le temps ravive le cerfeuil
Je ne veux pas être tout seul
Quand l'hiver tournera de l'oeil

Fais du feu dans la cheminée
Je Reviens Chez Nous
S'il fait du soleil à Paris
Il en fait partout

Je rapporte avec mes bagages
Un goût qui m'était étranger
Moitié dompté, moitié sauvage
C'est l'amour de mon potager

Fais du feu dans la cheminée
Je Reviens Chez Nous
S'il fait du soleil à Paris
Il en fait partout

Fais du feu dans la cheminée
Je rentre chez moi
Et si l'hiver est trop buté
On hibernera
TRANSLATION
It snowed in Port-au-Prince
It is still raining in Chamonix
We ford the Garonne river
The sky is full of blue in Paris
My winter crumb is upside down
Don't go back out there.
The world is in turmoil
It's freezing in the south, sweating in the north

Make a fire in the chimney
I'm Coming Home
If it's sunny in Paris
He makes them everywhere.

The Seine has regained its twenty banks
Despite the heavy sleet
If I have frost on my lips
It's that I'm watching over him.
My dear, my heart is upside down
Time revives the chervil
I don't want to be alone.
When winter turns to sleep

Make a fire in the chimney
I'm Coming Home
If it's sunny in Paris
He makes them everywhere.

I bring back with my luggage
A taste that was foreign to me
Half tamed, half wild
It's the love of my vegetable garden

Make a fire in the chimney
I'm Coming Home
If it's sunny in Paris
He makes them everywhere.

Make a fire in the chimney
I'm going home.
And if winter is too stubborn
We'll hibernate

[Groundy]

Good as ever jp, love it...Alex

[Redler]

Fine job JP! Nice song and each instrument is well in balance. Harmonica and harp puts a tastful efect to this!

[Hook]

Lovely song brother.
Rock on!

[Oldrottenhead]

tres braw. i want me an autoharp.

[alfstone]

Excellent, JP!

Alfredo

[Jean Pierre]

thank you friends

i want me an autoharp.

.............yes  a nice instrument, very recommended
easy to play at the first level (the chords are all done by pressing a key)... but at a higher level, there are real virtuosos!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFzLNMQgA0w

[TPB]

In fine form brother but them I am partial to the harp
Bravo Tim

[Jean Pierre]

BUMP, for a comment on the topic in general discussion " Crazy  Weather" by  Alex
..there are the lyrics and their translation on the lyrics screen

[Ray Brookes]

A lovely song and performed so well, Jean pierre. The video is fantastic too and you play all the instruments excellently.