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===Songs=== * "[[Jambalaya (On the Bayou)]]" (1952) is credited to [[Hank Williams]], about life, parties, and stereotypical Cajun cuisine. The music is taken from the Cajun song "Grand Texas". * "[[Acadian Driftwood]]" (1975), a popular song based on the Acadian Expulsion by [[Robbie Robertson]], appeared on [[The Band]]'s album ''[[Northern Lights β Southern Cross]]''. * "[[Louisiana Man]]" (1961), an autobiographical song written and performed by [[Doug Kershaw]], became the first song broadcast back to Earth from the Moon by the astronauts of [[Apollo 12]]. Over the years, the song has been recorded by hundreds of artists, sold millions of copies and become a standard of modern Cajun music. * "Jolie Blonde" (or "Jolie Blon", "Jole Blon", or "Joli Blon"), with lyrics and song history of the traditional Cajun waltz, is often referred to as "the Cajun national anthem". * "[[Mississippi Queen]]" is a 1970 song by [[Mountain (band)|Mountain]] about a Cajun woman visiting from Mississippi. * "Elvis Presley Was a Cajun" is a song from the 1991 Irish film ''[[The Commitments (film)|The Commitments]]'', in which a two-piece band plays along to the lyric "Elvis was a Cajun, he had a Cajun heart." * "[[Amos Moses]]" (1970), a song by [[Jerry Reed]], is about a fictional one-armed alligator-hunting Cajun man. * "Perfect Day", a song by [[Lady Antebellum]], starts off with the singer seeing "a Cajun man with a red guitar singing on the side of the street" and throwing "a handful of change in his beat-up case and [saying] play me a country beat". * "Cajun Hell", a song by American thrash metal band [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]], from 1989 album ''[[Fabulous Disaster]]''. * "Queen Of New Orleans", a song by [[Jon Bon Jovi]] from the 1997 album [[Destination Anywhere (Jon Bon Jovi album)|Destination Anywhere]] * "[[Adalida]]" by [[George Strait]] is a song about a "pretty little Cajun queen". * "[[Pogue Mahone#Standard edition|Amadie]]", a song by [[The Pogues]] written by the band's early member [[The Pogues#Members|Andrew Ranken]] from their 1996 album ''[[Pogue Mahone]]'' which is a tribute to American musician Amadie Adouin aka [[AmΓ©dΓ© Ardoin]] who popularised both [[Creole music]] and [[Cajun music]] in the early 20th century.
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