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Some Tunes Are Known Worldwide
A chapter in the book Foxtales From The Front Porch
Whistlin' Dixie in Danish
by foxtale
While traveling in Europe with my Brother-in-law and his wife, my daughter, Melanie, stayed for a couple of days in a little town on the coast of Denmark. Each morning as the flag in the quaint postage-stamp sized park was raised, students from the nearby middle-school would accompany the flag raising by playing musical instruments.
One morning while breakfasting, my daughter was sure she heard that old song, "Dixie," being laboriously squeaked out by a flute and a clarinet. Just across the street were two students with their instruments standing at the flagpole along with the town's maintenance man.
My brother-in-law, who speaks Danish, was able to discover why the students were playing "Dixie," an American song of the south. The kids were first year music students and between the two of them "Dixie" was the only song they both knew clear through.
Wrong flag, wrong continent, but the music endured!
..jfox..
While traveling in Europe with my Brother-in-law and his wife, my daughter, Melanie, stayed for a couple of days in a little town on the coast of Denmark. Each morning as the flag in the quaint postage-stamp sized park was raised, students from the nearby middle-school would accompany the flag raising by playing musical instruments.
One morning while breakfasting, my daughter was sure she heard that old song, "Dixie," being laboriously squeaked out by a flute and a clarinet. Just across the street were two students with their instruments standing at the flagpole along with the town's maintenance man.
My brother-in-law, who speaks Danish, was able to discover why the students were playing "Dixie," an American song of the south. The kids were first year music students and between the two of them "Dixie" was the only song they both knew clear through.
Wrong flag, wrong continent, but the music endured!
..jfox..
One morning while breakfasting, my daughter was sure she heard that old song, "Dixie," being laboriously squeaked out by a flute and a clarinet. Just across the street were two students with their instruments standing at the flagpole along with the town's maintenance man.
My brother-in-law, who speaks Danish, was able to discover why the students were playing "Dixie," an American song of the south. The kids were first year music students and between the two of them "Dixie" was the only song they both knew clear through.
Wrong flag, wrong continent, but the music endured!
..jfox..
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