Wadja say??

I think I've mentioned before that I have another string to my bow, internet-wise, in that I make piano arrangements of popular songs of the past and post them online (bottom link on the left).  Well I'm presently working on "The poor people of Paris" which, as a title, has a rather strange history.  It started life as a French song "La goualante de pauvre Jean" - the ballade of poor John - but when an American songwriter came to give it English lyrics, he misheard "pauvre Jean" as "pauvre gens" (poor people) and that's how it came to be "The poor people of Paris".