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Thread #135389   Message #3088004
Posted By: GUEST,Rickard Sjöberg
03-Feb-11 - 02:01 PM
Thread Name: Help! - Moby Dick TV series shanty-Blow Boys Blow
Subject: RE: Help! - Moby Dick TV series shanty-Blow Boys Blow
Hi forum,

I can tell you that my deadline has now passed, so I had to settle for an option. I decided to pretend that I knew what they were singing about, using my own and Gibb Sahib's transcriptions and then moulding them into rhyming Swedish. Because of the rhymes I could get away with things that wouldn't have been literal even if I'd had the correct transcription. And no one will probably bother anyway.

But just out of curiosity I've e-mailed the production company asking them to direct me to someone who *does* know what the chanting's all about. If or when I receive an answer I'll let you know.

Rickard