Re: OT: Looking for Dutch children's song

On Jun 8, 2008, at 1:47 AM, Ingmar Roerdinkholder wrote:

> About the other song, it seems so be High German, I asked Reinhard/
> Ron Hahn
> of the Lowlands Linguists List and he found out a lot of stuff for us.
Great! Many thanks, to both of you.

> But how
> does a Frisian/Dutch grandmother know this German song?
This song was taught to me by my (American) cousin. I don't know
where she learned it. It was Chris Peters that said his grandmother
knew the other song.

>
> Ingmar
>
> "...OK, Ingster, I think I'm getting warm regarding your song
> request. There is
> a children's song of Untersteinbach, Upper Palatinate (*Oberpfalz*),
> Bavaria, near the Czech border, recorded in 1910 (
> http://www.heinlenews.de/geschl10a.htm):
>
> Bitsche, batsche, Peter
> hinterm Ofe stehtr,
> hol a schleckigs Hütle uf,
> klopft mit'm Prüchele allweil druf.
<snip>

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