Flemish/Dutch Folk Songs

Subject: RE: Flemish/Dutch Folk Songs
From: GUEST,robert of robert's creek
Date: 18 Apr 11 - 02:40 AM

I just happened upon this discussion and find it fascinating! Does anyone out there happen to know the lyrics to a rollicking Flemish easter song "Vei Kommen Van Oosten Vei kommen van ver"?

Subject: RE: Flemish/Dutch Folk Songs
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 18 Apr 11 - 04:10 AM

Wij komen van oosten

Subject: RE: Flemish/Dutch Folk Songs
From: Monique
Date: 18 Apr 11 - 04:40 AM

Nigel's dood haan

Mijn haan is dood, mijn haan is dood
Mijn haan is dood, mijn haan is dood
Hij zal niet meer zingen kokodie, kokoda
Hij zal niet meer zingen kokodie, kokoda
Koko kokodie kodie koda
Koko kokodie kodie koda

Subject: RE: Plattdeutsch Folk Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 03 May 22 - 05:02 PM

I recognised DAT DU MYN SCHATSKEN BIST posted by Alan in 1998 as a song I was familiar with via the singing of Hannes Vader. He recorded an album of songs in Plattdeutsch and calls the song Dat du min Leefste büst (mainly a difference in spelling, and I thing Schatsken and Leefste have similar meanings, something like "darling")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhdGVokcSE

Subject: RE: Flemish/Dutch Folk Songs
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 03 May 22 - 07:36 PM

"Leefste" would be "liebste" in High German, "darling" (literally "dearest"). There's no standard spelling for Plattdeutsch (Low German), so "büst" could be spelled otherwise. The corresponding word in High German is "bist" ("(you) are"). "That you are my darling" would be the English translation of the title. Incidentally, Hannes Wader spells his name with a "W", which, of course, is pronounced like "V" in English.

In Germany, this song is mostly known as a Plattdeutsch song, even among non-Plattdeutsch speakers (who are very few and far between in, say, Bavaria).

Laurence Finston