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Thread #82719   Message #1516336
Posted By: Abby Sale
06-Jul-05 - 02:04 PM
Thread Name: happy? - July 6 ('HaTikvah')
Subject: RE: happy? - July 6
Israel. The song went into tradition immediately among the farmers, processed, changed and became the national anthem. In Hebrew, of course.

Wolfgang. Ok, but no way you can get away with that. (I'm sure you knew it, too.) Now you have to give the provenance (more or less) of the song and a translation. Preferably literal. Now, don't make me go Babel Fish on you!