[Sca-cooks] Totally OT Christmas musing...

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> ... sorry for the bandwidth use on this topic, but this bunch is
> probably one of the largest groups of unorthodox thinkers I know of...
>
> I'm sitting here, with a collection of some fairly banal, and some
> brilliant, Christmas music playing in the background.
>
> My question is, why hasn't someone listened carefully to the
> [Spanish?] lyrics to the traditional song recorded in the 60's by the
> Monkees, "Riu Chiu", and _immediately_ used it as the background to
> the opening scenes of a werewolf movie?
>
> Giving new meaning to warm holiday fuzzies,
>
> Adamantius

Well, because although it was recorded in the 60s, it was never released
until the 90s, and the Monkees weren't /aren't popular enough for someone to
use them as a draw to a movie? I enjoyed them in the 60s, and I know they
had a revival in the 90s, but that revival was pretty small, as I remember.


ALBUM  · Missing Links Volume 2 (1990)


LYRICS  Riu riu chiu, la guarda ribera;
Dios guardo el lobo de nuestra cordera,
Dios guardo el lobo de neustra cordera.

El lobo rabioso la quiso morder,
Mas dios poderoso la supo defender;
Quisola hazer que no pudiese pecar,
Ni aun original esta virgen no tuviera.

Riu, riu chiu...

Este qu'es nacido es el gran monarca,
Christo patriarca de carne vestido;
Hemos redemido con se hazer chiquito,
Aunqu'era infinito, finito se hiziera.

Riu, riu chiu...


Translated:

River, roaring river, guard our homes in safety,
God has kept the black wolf from our lamb, our lady.
God has kept the black wolf from our lamb, our lady.

Raging mad to bite her, there the wolf did steal,
But our God almighty defended her with zeal.
Pure he wished to keep her so she could never sin,
That first sin of man never touched the virgin sainted.

River, roaring river...

He who's now begotten is our mighty monarch,
Christ, our holy father, in human flesh embodied.
He has brough atonement by being born so humble,
Though he is immortal, as mortal was created.

River, roaring river...







Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....