Gura mie mooar eu - thanks very much. I hadn't been expecting to get the full lyrics for Deus Meus.

For a meaning of "macaronic", I went to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, still keeping to the old name despite being printed in Chicago now. In Book 7, p. 603 column c there's this:

"originally comic Latin verse form characterized by the introduction of vernacular words with appropriate but absurd Latin endings; later variants apply the same technique to modern languages. the form was invented in the early 16th century by Teofilo Folengo, a dissolute Benedictine monk who applied Latin rules of form and syntax to an Italian vocabulary in his burlesque epic of chivalry Baldus (1517; Le maccherone, 1927-28). He described the macaronic as the literary equivalent of the Italian dish, which, in its 16th-century form, was a crude mixture of flour, butter, and cheese. The Baldus soon found imitators in Italy and France, and some macaronics were even written in mock Greek. The outstanding British poem in this form is the Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam (published 1684), an account of a battle between two Scottish villages, in which William Drummond subjected Scots dialect to Latin grammatical rules. A modern English derivative of the macaronic pokes fun at the grammatical complexities of ancient languages taught at school, as in A.D. Godley's illustration of declension in "Motor Bus":

Domine defende nos Contra hos Motores Bos

("Lord protect us from these motor buses").

The form has survived in comic combinations of modern languages. The German-American medleys of Charles G. Leland in his Hans Breitmann's Ballads (first published under that title in 1884) are examples of the modern macaronic, in particular his warning "To a Friend Studying German":

Vill'st dou learn die Deutsche Sprache? Den set it on your card Dat all de nouns has shenders, Und de shenders all are hard."

Thus the Encyclopaedia Britannica, anyway.

Shoh slaynt,

Bobby Bob