Re: OT: Code-switching in music

caeruleancentaur wrote:
>> li_sasxsek@ wrote:
>
>> I'm just wondering if anyone else out there could provide some good
>> examples of music with lyrics that involve some type of
>> code-switching or mixing in of "foreign" words or phrases.
>
> Then there is Bobby Vinton's song from some time in the 70s with Polish
> in the chorus:
>
> Oh, oh moja droga jacie kocham
> Means that I love you so
> Moja droga jacie kocham
> More than you'll ever know
> Kocham ciebie calem serce
> Love you with all my heart
> Return and always be
> My melody of love
Oh, I used to have a 45 of that song. I wonder if I still have it? I
don't think I knew it was Polish at the time, but I guess even back then
I liked listening to songs with non-English lyrics.

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