polutrope: (work habits)
2007-12-01 06:04 pm

(no subject)

It seems that the common verses of Clementine are not the original, but a parody. Which makes total sense, of course, though the original words are funny enough on their own.


Also, House of the Rising Sun - in Czech!

32 languages of Frère Jaques, if I count correctly.


Latin FTW:
Latin
Quare dormis, o Iacobe,
Etiam nunc, etiam nunc?
|: Resonant campanae, :|
Din din dan, din din dan.

Ô Iacôbe, frâter piger,
dormîsne? dormîsne?
|: Tinnî Mâtûtînum! :|
Tin tin tan, tin, tin, tan.