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Thread #37797 Message #548363
Posted By: Susanne (skw)
12-Sep-01 - 04:58 PM
Thread Name: German folk music
Subject: RE: German folk music
Wilfried, Wolfgang was quite correct - 'Dat du min Leevsten buest' is THE Low German night visiting song. Whenever I hear one of the innumerable maudlin renditions preferred by our radio stations (and some bands) I ask myself, Don't they realise this song is about SEX? Slight correction to Wolfgang's last post as well (sorry!): The language of 'Trina' isn't Frisian but Low German, from the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein where I was born. I would have a lot more trouble understanding it if it was Frisian, but I was brought up speaking Low German, and the lyrics are quite familiar.