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Thread #42549   Message #619033
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
31-Dec-01 - 12:22 PM
Thread Name: Ballad of the Merry Ferry -songs of the Northwest
Subject: RE: Ballad of the Merry Ferry (Pacific NW)
Stilly River Sage:

Here's the spellings you lacked for at least the first two lines of the famous Old English (or is it Middle?) poem:

Sumer is icumen in
Lhude sing cucu!

to which I like to refer, when it's getting really chilly in early winter:

Winter is icumen in
Lhude sing pen-guin!

Dave Oesterreich