Re: OT: Looking for Dutch children's song
| From: | Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 2, 2008, 4:53 |
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On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:21:14 -0500, Eric Christopherson
<rakko@...> wrote:
>While we're at it, anyone able to identify this song? I don't know
>what language it is; it might be gibberish for all I know. It goes:
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>/%bEtS@%batS@"beit@
> %Indi%ouvI"Steit@ (this part sounds German)
> "vIksti%si
> "vIksti%su
> %kamdi%kEtsl@"ale%su
> a"deima%ma
> a"deipa%pa
> "hupsa%lisa%hupsa%sa/
betsje batsje beete
in de oven steet e
wikstiesie
wiekstiesoe
kam de kettel alle soe
an de mama
an de papa
hupsa, Lisa, hupsasa
the first is a nonsense rhyme sentence
then: in the oven he stands
nonsentence ?? it won't be XTC ;-)
nonsentence ??
came the kettle all so
to the mama
to the papa
whoops, Lisa, come on
Looks like Low Saxon, maybe from Ost-Friesland (Low Saxon speaking part of
Germany, adjacent to the Netherlands Low Saxon speaking province of
Groningen
Ingmar
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