This is a song that I, unlike the other songs, did not write for piano but for an accordion. Though most of the music I present is piano-related in fact my first instrument of choice was an accordion. The first time I strapped one on my shoulders was when I was eight I think. It was a very primitive instrument that my father just like me got from his parents when he was young, 15 or so. My father still has it in his possession. <br />Some of the strophes of this song date from 1994 or so. But the chords and the melody even go back to 1988. <br />It's in fact probably one of the first melodies I ever wrote. It took untill 1996 before the song really got finished when I was able to buy myself a second hand accordion in really good shape for the price of not even $250. <br />Of course there's only one type of music that really agrees with the accordion, and that's the waltz :o) <br />I dedicated the song to a friend I had around the turn of the millennium whose last name was "Vergote". Gote or goot is Flemish for gutter and when you translate it in French you get "Corniche". <br />So the song has the fitting name "In the gutter in Paris"
