[lit-ideas] Re: More Translation Opportunities, Especially for the Welsh

  • From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:16:42 +0100 (BST)

I forgot Amazing Grace.  And My Country, 'Tis of Thee's sung to the tune of God 
Save the Queen.  And You'll Never Walk Alone is Liverpool (FC)'s anthem. 

Judy Evans, Cardiff


--- On Sun, 9/10/11, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: More Translation Opportunities, Especially for the 
> Welsh
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, 9 October, 2011, 23:22
> 
> On Oct 9, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
> 
> > Judy Evans wrote
> > 
> >> Six sets of tennis?  Arcane...
> >> 
> >> I'd say Flower of Scotland's a bit challenging.
> >> 
> >> England should be beaten every single time for
> choosing God Save the Queen.  I do though like it when
> they sing Swing Low Sweet Chariot.
> > 
> > I think I'd like it too but I didn't know it was an
> English spiritual.
> 
> Funny that Wallis Willis' song should come up on a day when
> our newspaper is running an article about descendants of
> freedmen losing benefits associated with being part of the
> Cherokee nation.  Willis was a freedman from Chocktaw
> slavery.
> 
> Surely if Americans can take "Amazing Grace" to heart,
> Brits are allowed to have a run at "Swing Low"?  All's
> fair in love, war and singing.  (I'll draw the line at
> karaoke, which should have been stifled at birth).
> 
> David Ritchie,
> detesting "Greensleeves" and much "early" music in
> Portland,
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