Britons!
German Nightmare
04-01-2006, 23:05
I need your help, if you please.
The lyrics the performer sings in the following version of "Rule Britannia" seem not to be ones found above. (I could be mistaken, but I think he makes something up in one of the middle or last stanzas and the audience laughs).
lyrics: (found likewise elsewhere, so please don't just google it and post those you found...)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_Britannia
At the bottom of the page, third song from the top:
http://www.cix.co.uk/~lumpkin/rulebrit.mp3
I'd appreciate it if someone could transcribe those lyrics and post them here.
Thank you!
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Praetonia
04-01-2006, 23:09
Sometimes they miss out some of the verses and such. Nice smiley by the way, I may have to steal that.
Bodies Without Organs
04-01-2006, 23:15
I need your help, if you please.
The lyrics the performer sings in the following version of "Rule Britannia" seem not to be ones found above. (I could be mistaken, but I think he makes something up in one of the middle or last stanzas and the audience laughs).
Sounds like German to me (at 2:30-2:40).
German Nightmare
04-01-2006, 23:20
Sounds like German to me.
Oh yes. Wait! It's a recording from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, "Last Night of the Proms", Live 2000. I'm sure the British find it very amusing when someone sings German?
You sure?
German Nightmare
04-01-2006, 23:22
Sounds like German to me (at 2:30-2:40).
I am German and I don't understand a single word. It's not English, is it?!?
What is it?!?
Help!!!
Bodies Without Organs
04-01-2006, 23:24
Oh yes. Wait! It's a recording from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, "Last Night of the Proms", Live 2000. I'm sure the British find it very amusing when someone sings German?
You sure?
Ah, its Welsh. Bryn Terfel singing it, from 1994, not 2000 as the ID tags seems to suggest on the MP3.
German Nightmare
04-01-2006, 23:32
Ah, its Welsh. Bryn Terfel singing it, from 1994, not 2000 as the ID tags seems to suggest on the MP3.
Oh! That explains a lot.
Okay, who speaks Welsh around here?
Who is willing to translate that for me?
Wildwolfden
05-01-2006, 13:24
http://www.jilldaniels.com/rule%20britannia.htm
Bodies Without Organs
05-01-2006, 13:31
http://www.jilldaniels.com/rule%20britannia.htm
Uh-huh. And where is the bit in Welsh that is the entire point of the thread?
Wildwolfden
05-01-2006, 14:09
Uh-huh. And where is the bit in Welsh that is the entire point of the thread?
oops sorry misunderstood
Bodies Without Organs
05-01-2006, 14:18
oops sorry misunderstood
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Jeruselem
05-01-2006, 14:21
How ironic, the song of conquering empire sung by the defeated Welsh tribes. :)