Annotation:L'Annee de Cinquante-Sept
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L'ANNEE DE CINQUANTE-SEPT (The Year of '57). Cajun, Waltz. USA, southwestern Louisiana. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song commemorates Hurricane Audrey, which ripped through Louisiana in June, 1957, making landfall in Cameron Parish, south of Lake Charles.
Source for notated version: Alex "Brud" Broussard (1926-2010, Acadiana, La.) [Francois]
Printed sources: Francois (Yé Yaille, Chère!), 1990; pp. 328-329.
Recorded sources: La Louisiane Records LL-103 & LL-8020, Alex Broussard.