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Thread #103975   Message #2124626
Posted By: greg stephens
13-Aug-07 - 06:40 AM
Thread Name: Arabic & African names in English songs & stories
Subject: RE: Arabic & African names in English songs & stories
Sambo's Grave: there is, I believe, no date on the grave.
Azxizi, re Sultan's Polka: my comment on the "first theme" was perhaps ambiguous. It is a three part tune, or at least the version I know is, and the first part is the tune used for an English nursery-rhyme:
One two three four five
Once I caught a fish alive
Six seven eight nine ten
Then I let him go again
Why did you let him go?
Because he bit my finger so
Which finger did he bite?
This little finger on the right.