Re: CHAT Re: Singing in foreign langs. was Re: Greetings

On 12 Jan, Roger Mills wrote:

> Then there's "Au pres de ma blonde",
> probably a soldiers' song.
    <snip>
> Immense
> nostalgia trip..as so many periods, even specific events, of my life are
> associated with the music I was hearing at the time
    Right on, Roger! I can remember the very first time I ever heard
"Au pres de ma blonde". It was in an old movie, on TV.
It must be close to 50 years now, but I can still see the scene in
my mind's eye! These French fur trappers were canoeing down
a Canadian river, lustily singing the song (backed, it must be
noted, by a full chorus and lush orchestra! The chorus and
orchestra weren't in canoes; they must have been hiding
among the trees on the bank! ;-)   ).
    I later learned a version, in French, in school. Somewhere
along the line, I learned _another_  French version which,
regrettably, I've forgotten after all these years. I just remember that it
was, shall we say, a bit more "sexist" than the one I learned in school! ;-)
Just the sort of thing one might hear in an army, however!
(You'd think that I'd remember lyrics like that! :-)    )



Dan Sulani
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