Bayou

09:53 Nov 5, 2013 

Cheers, Anne :) Years ago I was in a pub band with my brother and we used to do Jambalaya. I played an accordion solo because we didn't have a fiddle player. Happy days!

09:46 Nov 5, 2013 

Thanks Charles. I must admit you´ve convinced me!

09:34 Nov 5, 2013 

Many people have sung and recorded it. The Carpenters' cover version is one of the better known ones. It was recorded in 1973. But the song itself was written and recorded over twenty years before by the immortal Hank Williams.

I think it has to be left as "bayou". It's a specific local feature. The context defines it quite precisely, so there's no need for further explanation.

09:22 Nov 5, 2013 

The only thing about leaving it as such (bayou) is that most Spaniards wouldn´t know what it is and you´d have to put a translator´s note anyway. I would put ....pantano, conocido localmente como "bayou"

09:14 Nov 5, 2013 

¡Qué canción más buena la de Creedence Clearwater Revival! Y antes de esa, la de Hank Williams, de 1952, "Jambalaya (on the Bayou)":

"Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou

Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and file gumbo
Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou [...]"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKOVPXhlnE

17:42 Nov 2, 2013 

la traducción literal me parece que es "pantano", sin embargo creo que lo más apropiado es dejarlo tal cual, ya que es propio de esa región. Ejemplo: Born on the Bayou, canción de CCR