Talk:Crescent City (song)

Tu le ton son temps
I think this is a phonetic transliteration of the French Tous les temps en temps - "Everything in its time" - which is the title of a well-known Cajun tune (e.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEusqc6chOU)

To get to ' Tu le ton son temps ' from ' Tous les temps en temps ', requires an appreciation the importance of the rules of 'liaison' in French pronunciation.

In French, a final 's' in a word is never sounded, except where the following word begins with a vowel; in which case, the following word forms a liaison with the 's' belonging to the preceding word: thus, ' Tous les temps en temps ' will be pronounced (in French) as ' Tous les temp sen temps '.

The (silent) p in temps nasalises the preceding 'em' - yielding the (English) phonetic representation of the pronunciation of temps as ton. ' Tous les temps en temps ' is similarly represented in English phonetic spelling as ' Tu le ton son temps  ' or ' Tou leh ton son ton ' and, eventually, as ' Tu le ton son ton ' (as it is rendered e.g., here. Redpaul1 (talk) 18:41, 10 May 2013 (UTC)