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Re: Vi nemt men di heylike teg?
- From: Robert A. Rothstein <rar...>
- Subject: Re: Vi nemt men di heylike teg?
- Date: Wed 09 Oct 2002 03.15 (GMT)
SamWeiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net wrote:
> I found an audio clip of this song.
> http://www.mostlymusic.com/userramfiles/71605827141146.74.ram
>
The beginning seems to be nearly identical to the first line of a 1904
Russian song, "Variag" or "Pleshchut kholodnye volny," about the Russian
cruiser Variag, which was sunk off Korea by its own crew so it wouldn't fall
into the hands of the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War.
Bob Rothstein
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