Almost inaudible now, the radio swung into a bilingual song by Cajun singer Rod Bernard and his friend Jack Clement. It was about a modern Cajun girl at the fais do-do, a Cajun-style Saturday night hoedown. The English version went:

She don't like to ride in my pirogue,
Don't even know how to cook gumbo.
She upsets her Cajun papa
When she does the Twist at the fais do-do.

So even the Cajuns are nervous about remaining themselves. But I think they will survive.

—Bern Keating, National Geographic, 1966