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How to add a song?

04 May 99 - 10:18 PM (#75664)
Subject: How to add a song?
From: Andy A.

As far as I can tell, "Was Geschah" is nowhere in the database. According to the best of my Net research, it's German (Prussian) and traditional as all get-out. It's got a really lovely tune, and the words are moving also. It's anti-war, sort of like "Where have all the flowers gone", except better. How can I submit it to the database?


05 May 99 - 03:00 AM (#75711)
Subject: RE: How to add a song?
From: alison

Hi,

Start a new thread called something like

Add.lyrics:Was Gechlah, (don't use "'s or your title may disappear).

Dick will get around to putting into the database eventually..... it gets updated about twice a year. If you have a tune... stick it in too.

Slainte

alison


05 May 99 - 05:41 AM (#75739)
Subject: RE: How to add a song?
From: Wolfgang

Andy,
in case you mean this song it's really worth posting and I shall let you do it. It is one of the very few German language songs I ever considered posting. However, it is not a German song in origin, for it comes from Latvia (or Lithuania). Pete Seeger is on record for having said or written that he had read a few lines in a Russian book that gave him the idea for his 'Where have all the flowers gone'. It is probable that this is the song involved.

Wolfgang


05 May 99 - 08:44 PM (#75916)
Subject: RE: How to add a song?
From: Andy A.

That's the one. I'll send it in, as soon as I get around to it, then. Maybe with a tune and a translation.