XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin   
   From: wugi@brol.invalid   
      
   Op 8/11/2024 om 18:45 schreef Ed Cryer:   
   > HenHanna wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 20:02:19 +0000, HenHanna wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Are you sleeping, are you sleeping. Brother John, brother John.   
   >>> Morning bells are ringing,. Morning bells are ringing...........   
   >>>   
   >>> ____________________   
   >>>   
   >>>    Americans perceive it as a quintessentially British song   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>    For me  (and thousands of others)  this was reinforced by   
   >>> Paul McCartney  singing....   
   >>>   
   >>>                (Someone's  Ringing the Bell...)   
   >>>   
   >>>                Sister Suzie,   
   >>>                               Brother John   
   <---------   
   >>>   
   >>>                 Martin Luther, Phil and Don   
   >>>                Brother Michael, auntie Gin   
   >>>                    Open the door and let 'em in, yeah   
   >>>   
   >>> ______________________________________   
   >>>   
   >>> Paul's aunt ("Auntie Gin")   
   >>> Paul's brother ("Brother Michael")   
   >>> The Everly Brothers ("Phil and Don")   
   >>> Keith Moon ("Uncle Ernie")   
   >>> Either John Entwistle or John Lennon ("Brother John")   
   >>>   
   >>> "Sister Suzie" was Linda, who once recorded a song under the name "Suzie   
   >>> And The Red Stripes."   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> ______________________________   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>  I always assumed Brother John was Beatle John. But John Eastman   
   >>>>>> makes   
   >>>>>> sense!   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> I read a quote somewhere that John Eastman was one of only two men Paul   
   >>> would listen to, the other being George Martin.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>                Sister Suzie,   
   >>>                               Brother John   
   <---------   
   >>>   
   >>>                 Martin Luther, Phil and Don   
   >>>                Brother Michael, auntie Gin   
   >>>                    Open the door and let 'em in, yeah   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>      Sister Suzie,   
   >>>                 Brother John   
   >>   
   >>                   seemed like characters from Nursery   
   Rhymes.   
   >>   
   >> Miss Muffet's  name is  Suzy or Susie  Muffett.   
   >> or that Elinor Rigby  became a Nun   
   >>                          (and became known as    
   Sister Suzy)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Martin Luther, and   
   >>             Uncle Arnie... i misheard in my head   
   >>               as  Albert   (as in ...holes to fill the   
   Albert Hall)   
   >>   
   >> So, i saw  Martin Luther and  Albert Einstein (and others)   
   >>        in a Sgt.Pepper like  display   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> … And though the holes were rather small   
   >> They had to count them all   
   >> Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> _________________________   
   >>   
   >> The song starts with the sound of a V. & E. Friedland Maestro   
   >> Westminster Chime doorbell, an electro-mechanical doorbell with a unique   
   >> "vibrato resonating" feature, before the rhythm begins.[5][6] The lyric   
   >> namechecks several famous people, between friends and relatives of   
   >> McCartney who, without a justified reason, knock on the door or ring the   
   >> bell of his house and he exclaims "Let 'Em In". They include McCartney's   
   >> paternal aunt Gin, his brother Michael, and Linda McCartney's brother   
   >> John. Phil and Don of the Everly Brothers are named (the duo had a hit   
   >> with "Keep A Knockin'"), along with Martin Luther,[7] who famously hung   
   >> his "95 Theses" on a church door. An Uncle Ernie is also named, being   
   >> the character Ringo Starr sang in the London Symphony Orchestra's   
   >> recording of the Who's rock opera, Tommy.[8]   
   >   
   > Ever hear the song "For he's a jolly good fellow"?   
   > Well, it was ripped from a French song;   
   >   
   >   
   > Malbrough s'en va en guerre,   
   > Mironton, mironton, mirontaine,   
   > Malbrough s'en va en guerre,   
   > Ne sait quand reviendra.   
      
   Same for the first one:   
      
   Frère Jaques (2x)   
   Dormez-vous? (2x)   
   Sonnent les matines (2x)   
      
   Dutch:   
   Broeder Jacob (2x)   
   Slaapt gij nog? (2x)   
   Hoor de klokken luiden (2x)   
   Bimbambom (2x)   
      
   Others?   
      
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