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No Problem!
Roger Collett
Arrowhead Press
http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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Jules de Gaultier
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From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Snap: the importance of song to estonians
with corrections. Of course, the law of corrections says that the
chances of making a mistake in the correction is quite high ....
I'm going to have to do a search of my poetry for dieing != dying doh!
On 15/07/06, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> as told to me by Television
>
> Eesti sing soo much that when the Russians
> jumped out of their little truck
> singing and dancing
> the Eesti tried to join in
> when the OGPU said yes
> the night was filled with the sounds
> of the dying and tortured beneath
> men were shipped off to the Estonian Rifle Corps
>
> When the Germans returned
> the Eesti were so happy they could sing
> Ma isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm
> that they smiled and danced
> soon men and children were shipped off
> to sing über alles for Greater Germany
> did Eesti SS sing as chimneys spat die Juden?
>
> When the Russians returned
> Eesti became as quiet as the forest
> the Brothers knew that singing
> starts after three days of torture
> the whistling birds never came
> madness came to those who waited
> a choral silence settled on this east land
>
> when the Eesti remembered how to sing
> it appeared that the Russians forgot
> they screamed and screamed
> and their ears hurt so much
> they left Eesti
> to their voyage to the end of the world
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