Re: OT: Code-switching in music

From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>

> But I do think the lyrics in question might make for an interesting
> translation exercise.  Any takers?  It'll take some thought and mad
> vocabulary creation on my end...
> Allow me to reproduce the first verse here, with inserted prosaic punctuation:
[ref. to "The Star-Spangled Banner"]

Maybe in the days ahead... The problem here lies not only in getting close to
meaning while maintaining poetic license, but getting it to fit in the form of
the melody, so that you don't get a string of eighth, sixteenth, or
thirty-second notes on one or two lone syllables,