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Apr. 8th, 2004 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosOn the way to the bus this morning I was humming.
And, okay, it might not really be summer yet, but the tulips are blooming! the ornamental cherries are blooming! the fruit trees are blooming! And today it was warm enough that I could wear a skirt without fear of freezing while I waited for the bus.
Mmmmm, spring. You can stay a while. Really. It's okay.
(Incidentally, is it not horrid that people sing Sumer Is Y-Cumen In in a modern English translation? I mean, it's not difficult to work out -- sure it's 13th century, but when you say it out loud you know what it means even if the spelling's weird. I bet if you sang it most people would get the gist, at least.)
(On second thought, most Americans would probably miss "verteth." That's okay, though, because I really don't need bucks farting in my cheery summer songs.)
Sumer is y-cumen inWhich really should be hummed in twelve-part round, I suppose. But there was only me, and I'm no Agnes and Perdita.
lhude sing cucu
groweth sede and bloweth mede
and spring'th the wode nu
sing cucu
And, okay, it might not really be summer yet, but the tulips are blooming! the ornamental cherries are blooming! the fruit trees are blooming! And today it was warm enough that I could wear a skirt without fear of freezing while I waited for the bus.
Mmmmm, spring. You can stay a while. Really. It's okay.
(Incidentally, is it not horrid that people sing Sumer Is Y-Cumen In in a modern English translation? I mean, it's not difficult to work out -- sure it's 13th century, but when you say it out loud you know what it means even if the spelling's weird. I bet if you sang it most people would get the gist, at least.)
(On second thought, most Americans would probably miss "verteth." That's okay, though, because I really don't need bucks farting in my cheery summer songs.)
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Date: 2004-04-08 10:25 am (UTC)Sigh.
*stubbornly sings original lyrics*
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Date: 2004-04-08 06:47 pm (UTC)*enormous classically geeky hugs*
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Date: 2004-04-26 12:15 pm (UTC)It is so cool that you sing it with your mom!
I've realized that between my RL friends and my LJ friends we really might be able to sing it as a twelve-part round. If, you know, we were all in the same place at the same time. And if I knew any boys who could sing bass.