The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93221   Message #1794132
Posted By: EBarnacle
26-Jul-06 - 08:43 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Favorite Blessings/Graces
Subject: RE: Folklore: Favorite Blessings/Graces
In Denmark during a visit in 1978, I picked up a small book of trad poetry. It included the following, which I translated from the Danish:

Here's to all the good folks who have enough to eat,
Here's to all the poor folks who haven't any meat;
Here's to all the lucky ones with no reason to complain
And we'll pray for sunshine on a cloudy day.

[can also be sung to "lille Peder Adderkop," also known as the "Inky Dinky Spider."