Re: The Chant on the Dog's Grave
From: | D Tse <exponent@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, March 7, 2001, 4:51 |
> I am still interested. Thank thou very much for this version.
>
> > but I found the English version that a friend of mine finally found.
>
> In what part of the world was it found?
> (Or was it in some conworld?
> I am supprised that this version
> is very similar to the Czech one.)
>
> > "A doggy stole a sausage
> > Because he was underfed
> > The butcher saw him do it
> > And shot him in the head
>
> > And all the little doggies
> > Were very sad indeed
> > They made a little tombstone
> > And on it it did read:
>
> > "A doggy stole a sausage..."
>
> How are the words "underfed" and "head" pronounced?
> ['woz ,and@'fi:d] does not fit with ['in T@ 'hed].
>
>
Possibly in your dialect they don't rhyme, but I'm sure that in English they
rhyme /'Vnd@fEd/, /hEd/
And my friend tells me that he heard the sausage song from someone else he
knows.
Would anyone like me to follow up? :P
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