Happy birthday this 16th December to ...
Dec. 16th, 2006 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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the very nicest Sinologist I know! (Well, all right, the only Sinologist I know, but even if I knew lots more it would be hard to imagine that she wouldn't be one of the nicest. :D)
Lyrics: The last ones were from Sir Harry Lauder's I Love A Lassie, apparently written in 1905 (I actually have a mp3 of an old Edison cylinder recording of that, from 1908). Perhaps not surprisingly, no-one recognised it as a song they danced to as teenagers. :)
So, while Googling for a vaguely appropriate song for today I came across this one, which I haven't heard for years and had completely forgotten about:
Take a journey back in time
Leave the western world behind
Cross the mountains to Peking
Where the paper lanterns gently swing (1980s)
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For she's a jolly good fellow!
Date: 2006-12-16 02:53 pm (UTC)Have a great one!
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Re: For she's a jolly good fellow!
Date: 2006-12-16 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-16 09:38 pm (UTC)(and the tune isn't "Walking on the Chinese Wall" is it?
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Date: 2006-12-16 09:39 pm (UTC)Re: Sinologists
Date: 2006-12-17 12:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-17 12:24 am (UTC)... and no, it isn't, but that was another song whose title cropped up when I tried everyhit.com, although one that I have absolutely no recollection of if I ever heard it. This one's from a well-known (as opposed to megastar) British band -- not a big hit, although it rang a bell when I looked it up. :)
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Date: 2006-12-18 06:25 pm (UTC)Hit me with your rhythm stick - Ian Dury and the Blockheads perchance?
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Date: 2006-12-18 06:58 pm (UTC)