The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #161451 Message #3837004
Posted By: mg
05-Feb-17 - 09:32 PM
Thread Name: Blue bird of hull
Subject: RE: Blue bird of hull
Would love Ms. Swan's help with pronunciations. I will do a runthrough phonetically and see what I come up with and maybe she can make corrections.
I am very taken with this song. It reminds me musically a bit of greensleeves and edmond fitzgerald and somehow of donegal danny but also stands for every shipwreck there ever was....
the one thing about your English version is I wish you would have a way to put the
- Båt i lä!
- Båt i lä!
- Det är far, det är vi!
- Det är far min från Smögen! Han log.
-Lower the boats!
-Lower the boats!
-It's father! It's us!
-It's father from Smögen! He smiled.
- Båt i lä! sjöng
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those are among the most powerful words i have ever heard in a song..reminds me of the words in marselleise.. Formez vos bataillons...now or never...