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...