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Thread #74796 Message #1307920
Posted By: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring
26-Oct-04 - 04:01 PM
Thread Name: Origins: drinking song...lodging is a cellar here
Subject: RE: Origins: drinking song...lodging is a cellar here
The translation I've heard begins "In cellar cool" - in the Scottish Students Song Book maybe - the original German is "Im tiefen Keller" or so. The translation ends rather well, going down the entire scale (eight notes from doh to doh, "d - r - i - n - k - i - n - g".
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