XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin   
   From: occam@nowhere.nix   
      
   On 08/11/2024 19:52, Aidan Kehoe wrote:   
   >   
   >  Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí na Samhain, scríobh HenHanna:   
   >   
   >  > Are you sleeping?   
   >  > Are you sleeping?   
   >  > Brother John   
   >  > Brother John   
   >  > Morning bells are ringing   
   >  > Morning bells are ringing   
   >  > Ding, ding, dong   
   >  > Ding, ding, dong   
   >   
   > Huh, I’d forgotten there were English words to « Frère Jacques ».   
   >   
      
   Yes, as there are translations in many other languages.   
      
   None of them start with 'are you sleeping?'. Your erratic source has the   
   third and fourth lines transposed with the first two lines. You can put   
   that down to the fact that the clucking Hen is a bit of a ding-dong   
   himself. (Hint, the song is called "Frère Jacques".)   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)