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Thread #2385 Message #1417496
Posted By: GUEST,Joe_F
22-Feb-05 - 10:56 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mademoiselle from Armentières
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mademoiselle from Armenti?res
W. H. Auden wrote a whole song on that pattern ("Passenger Shanty", 1938), but I'm afraid it is not in the spirit of the original:
The ship weighed twenty thousand ton
Parlez-vous
The ship weighed twenty thousand ton
Parlez-vous
She left Marseille at a quarter-to-one
For the China War and the tropical sun.
Inky-pinky parlez-vous.
(15 more stanzas)
--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
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