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Thread #48270   Message #723891
Posted By: Haruo
05-Jun-02 - 06:44 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Lyr Add: Malo, I would rather be
Subject: Lyr Add: Malo, I would rather be
Someone posted this little macaronic/redundant ditty in the Usenet newsgroup humanities.classics, in a thread on the various meanings of Latin "malus/malum". I was wondering if anybody knew a tune for it (or wanted to assign one):

Do you know the little rhyme:

Malo, I would rather be
Malo, up an apple tree,
Malo, than a naughty boy
Malo, in adversity?

The first two 'malo's have long A, the last two short.
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