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Re: OT: Looking for Dutch children's song

From:Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder@...>
Date:Monday, June 2, 2008, 4:53
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: > >/%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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