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Thread #79983   Message #1455204
Posted By: Young Buchan
08-Apr-05 - 07:07 AM
Thread Name: Inconsistency in folk song stories
Subject: RE: Inconsistency in folk song stories
Somewhere in the bowels of the School of Scottish Studies there is a version of High Germany beginning
O Germany O Germany you are a dreadful isle
The length all of High Germany is fifty thousand miles.

Doesn't leave too much room for Lower Germany! (As someone said when the Welsh lost at rugby to Western Samoa - what will happen when we have to play ALL Samoa?)