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Thread #127894 Message #3267954
Posted By: GUEST
03-Dec-11 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Father Dear Father Come Home
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Father Dear Father Come Home
. . wouw ! i, great great grand ma - have been looking for this for years . .
memory hears my father's lyrical tenor voice singing this in Dutch : " Vader , kom Vader kom mee nu naar huis , de klok van de toren slaat twee - de olie is op en de lamp die gaat uit . . kom Vader kom Vader ga mee . ." . . this is me at eighty-three and after many hrs searching on the net i found four verses ,. though i am pleased to find that my Vader never sang the very miserable and sad couplets about the dying little brother in the mother's arms of the little girl who sang the song at the bar door . . what he sang though left an urgent and dramatic memory with me none the less . translated ;; the oil is finished and the lamp will go out come Father come with me come now . . ! ( What a Vader , , what a voice what a man . . the song made me sigh but at least he was home )