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Thread #84290 Message #4225046
Posted By: Jack Campin
03-Jul-25 - 05:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Pig Latin Rag
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pig Latin Rag
I thought there might be more about Pig Latin on Mudcat. I just found this example of it being put to serious use in Palestinian Arabic songs:
This song is composed of two Tarweedeh songs which the women folk singers used to sing with secret messages in them by adding the letter ‘laam’ with every word to distort it. They used these secret messages through songs to give messages to their men who were imprisoned and give them instructions on their prison break. SubhanAllah, the resistance has been there way longer than we think in Palestine.