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<b>L O W L A N D S - L - 31 March 2010 - Volume 04</b><br>
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From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Tom Mc Rae</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="go"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="FR">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Traditions" 2010.03.31 (02)
[EN-SCO]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gi"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="FR"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">During my 10 years in Ghana I learned
that street balladeers were also common in markets often playing an
accompaniment to their news</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">on an indigenous fiddle with
a calabash base covered in monitor lizard skin. They would sing of local
gossip, current events, and abuse the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">living daylights out of
politicians.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You also wrote of the
frequent opening of balladeers... 'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the
29th of November,<br>
Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" will
long remember,[...]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My hero William Mc Gonagall
used this technique frequently in his disaster epics. eg</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"'twas in the year 1869
and on the nineteenth of November,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Which the people of Southern Germany will long remember." (Saving a
Train)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">He also uses the technique
in the repetetive sort of chorus of "The Tay Bridge Disaster"
'On the last Sabbath day of 1979.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Which will be remembered for
a very long time."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">When reciting his works to
audiences I train them when I do this one to yell out the final line in chorus.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">On 01/04/2010, at 10:18
AM, <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Sandy Fleming</span> <<a href="mailto:sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk" target="_blank">sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk</a>><br>
wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Pictures aside, I suppose there were street balladeers in
Britain and<br>
America, who recorded and recited topical news stories in a poetic,<br>
though often fairly formulaic, manner.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">Best Regards<br>
Tom Mc Rae<br>
Brisbane Australia<br>
An honest man's the noblest work of God (Robert Burns)</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">----------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="SV"><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="" lang="EN-US">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Subject: Traditions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Ah, yes, Tom! Now
I realize why McGonagall’s poetry seemed so familiar to me at first glance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/mcrae_mcgonagall.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/mcrae_mcgonagall.php</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/mcrae_new_mcgonagall.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/mcrae_new_mcgonagall.php</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">It’s rather similar
to that of German street
balladeers (<i>Moritatensänger</i>)!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">A couple of examples:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a name="Sabinchen"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Sabinchen </span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="display: none;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">Sabinchen war ein Frauenzimmer, gar hold und
tugendhaft.<br>
Sie diente treu und redlich immer bei ihrer Dienstherrschaft.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">Da kam aus Treuenbrietzen ein junger Mann daher,<br>
der wollte gern Sabinchen besitzen und war ein Schuhmacher.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">Sein Geld hat er versoffen in Schnaps und auch in
Bier.<br>
Da kam er zu Sabinchen geloffen und wollte welch’s von ihr.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">Sie konnt’ ihm keines geben, da stahl er auf der
Stell’<br>
von ihrer guten Dienstherrschaft sechs silberne Blechlöffel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">Jedoch nach achtzehn Wochen, da kam der Diebstahl ’raus.<br>
Da jagte man mit Schimpf und Schande Sabinchen aus dem Haus.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">Sie rief: „Verfluchter Schuster, du rabenschwarzer
Hund!“<br>
Da nahm er sein Rasiermesser und schnitt ihr ab den Schlund.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">Das Blut zum Himmel spritzte, Sabnichen fiel
gleich um.<br>
Der böse Schuster aus Treuenbrietzen, der stand um ihr herum.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">In einem dunklen Kellerloch, bei Wasser und bei
Brot,<br>
da hat er endlich eingestanden die grausige Moritot.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="DE"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a name="Butterr„uber"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="DE">Der Butterräuber von
Halberstadt </span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="DE"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">Durch des Hunwalds düstre Gründe auf
naturverschlungnem Pfad<br>
wandelt eine alte Butterfrau zum Markt nach Halberstadt.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">Hu, da plötzlich stürmt des Wuldes kühner Sohn aus
dem Geheg,<br>
scharf bewehrt bis an die Zähne, und vertritt ihr flugs den Weg.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">„Sind Sie“, sagt die Frau erblassend, einer
dunklen Ahnung voll,<br>
„nicht vielleicht der Räuber Heising, der allhier grassieren soll?“</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">„Ja, ich bin’s, du Unglücksel’ge, ja, ich bin’s,
der sich dir zeigt,<br>
und du bist diejen’ge, welche nimmer meinem Grimm entweicht. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">Denn mit hochwillkomm’nem Futter nahst du mir zu
guter Stund!“<br>
Sprach und schnitt von ihrer Butter schweigend sich ein ganzes Pfund.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">Und wie Schuppen von den Augen fällt’s der
Butterfrau sogleich:<br>
„Sie sind Heising!“, ruft sie schweigend. „Bin es!“ spricht der Räuber bleich.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="" lang="DE">„Bin’s und sage dir noch dieses: meinem Mordstahl
fallest du,<br>
bringst du mir nicht auf dem Rückweg Brot und Schlackwurst noch dazu.“</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="DE"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
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