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Thread #60731   Message #973129
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
27-Jun-03 - 03:03 AM
Thread Name: The Songs that most influenced you
Subject: RE: The Songs that most influenced you
These all are German songs, translated:
Don't yo see the pigs in the garden (in dialect):
Since I was brought up strictly learning High German at home, it started my interest in the dialect of my home country, which I'm speaking now quite well.
A mighty Fortress is our God:
A reassuring song in the troubles of life
Jesus my confidence:
Even more so; it was played at a soldier's funeral, and so will it be with mine, with fifes and drums.
Infantry, you are the crown of the weapons (service branches):
When I had the luck to be drafted into a battalion with a tradition fore more than 300 years and sang this song, I decided to give my best for my country.
With love songs it just was the other way round. I started to sing them first when I was married to my beautiful wife.

Wilfried