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chanter1944) wrote2019-07-25 08:53 pm
chanter1944) wrote2019-07-25 08:53 pm
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*facepalms*
When you read modern AU fics in a fandom that isn't even one of yours, and you wind up quite enchanted by a character you're fairly sure would intimidate you if he were teaching you what he teaches in canon, but who charms the socks off you as a surgeon stepping in to save lives with very little warning... Then you know you are a fannish nerd, and it's a good thing you'd be a terrible fit for a water dancer.
When a couple lines in one of those modern AU fics you've been reading cause you to trip headlong over and into the idea that this character, in an alternaverse or two, is Portuguese, and both speaks and sings in that language with talent and skill...
Then you, Chanter dear, have reverted to dang type. Again.
\I've only read a handful of ASoIaF/Game of Thrones fics, and half of those have been downright silliness, but... Syrio <3, and it's a good thing I'd be a terrible water dancer. Ah shaff it. *topples blushingly off the Internet* Don't even get me started on a certain outrageous flirt of a nonetheless dreamy Martell.
I sense a fic recs post in the offering soonish. Oops. :P
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Oh well, you can't be too picky,
Fanfic is tricky and apt to go ¡ƃuoɹʍ
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(Takes a step and stumbles. Cursing under his breath, unties the bows joining his ankles and his knees.)
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What *is* it about that language, honestly? Me and languages generally, but that one, in all its various and magnificent accents... Wow.
I almost quoted a song at you initially here, then decided against it. Grândola, Vila Morena, specifically. I figured hey, she's a historian, she'll get the reference.
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The Mudcat Cafe is my prime go-to for information and discussions about folk music, including the words and often the tunes. That page has a lo-o-ong thread (Oct 2000-Oct 2016) of discussion about a song ... that I searched the Mudcat for after reading this. Here's the first post:
Subject: Who sings this song?
From: GUEST,mmarquis@kent.edu
Date: 12 Oct 00 - 05:28 AM
Well, it’s all for the love of a fair young maid Lived in Parma Heights did reside.
Myself I lived in Beechwood. It was a forty-minute ride.
For there was a fly in the ointment there that you very seldom see.
For although I loved her terrible well, she was in love with a Portugee.
Now he was a nasty piece of goods. Rosellus was his name.
And he couldn't wait to get his hands on conceptor, who was me dame.
So I made a vow when I was downtown, that I would do him in.
For I did not like those Portuguese. And in particular, I didn't like him.
So I followed him down to Coventry, one evening for a lark,
Down to the Arabeca. That’s the in place after dark.
I spied him sitting in a corner seat. You could almost hear him boast
As he sat there with several whores, and gallons of French roast.
So I followed him to his lodgings in the flats somewhere about.
As he walked down an alleyway, I buttered him inside out.
Now he gave out many an awful swear till he was dead, I'm sure.
Then I lifted up a manhole lid and dropped him down the sewer.
Now when my wife she heard of this, she made my life a hell.
So all for the sake of peace and quiet, I did her in as well.
So now I'm up before the judge to answer for my crimes.
He says, “I didn't mind the first one son, but not the second time.”
So it’s all for the sake of that fair young maid and her Portuguese sailor friend.
For the passionate love of that fair young maid, I’ve landed in the pen.
But if ever I get out again, my life I'll change, you'll see.
For I'll marry with a girl from Pepperpike, who wouldn't look at a Portugee.
About 10 years ago I first heard a tape of this man’s stuff. The tape was not labeled and even the person who taped it from the Dr. Demento show could not remember his name. Since then I have worn out my tape of this and am now desperately looking for a CD or MP3 to replace it.
Other songs done by this man are as follows:
(Note: these are all remakes of public domain songs)
Nell Flaherty's Drake
Bantam Cock
Sister Josephine
To Morrow (this has a bit of a synthesized feel)
Thanks in advance,
Nygil Sade
Multiple threads on "She Loved a Portuguese" combined. According to Derek Brimstone, "'Portuguese' was written by a chap called Patrick Cogshill." (see below)
-Joe Offer-
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Boy was I wrong!