On 08 Aug 2007 13:02:23 GMT, (poppejoppe) wrote:

Interesting and I like the voices even though I don't read Dutch.

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On 08 Aug 2007 13:02:23 GMT, (poppejoppe) wrote:

Interesting and I like the voices even though I don't read Dutch.

It's about a young boy who goes to sea and misses his mother.
It's from a play which was written in 1940.

RtW

To be precise...
It's about a Rotterdam streetboy who signs onto a ship as a 'Ketelbinkie' a
cabin boy, to be able to support his old mother. But even though he does his
very best, he cannot survive the hardships of the life on board. In the end,
he dies of exhaustion and disease. A tragic end.

It's a historical song. Every dutchman knows at least the first line of the
song. :-)
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On 08 Aug 2007 13:02:23 GMT, (poppejoppe) wrote:

Interesting and I like the voices even though I don't read Dutch.

It's about a young boy who goes to sea and misses his mother.
It's from a play which was written in 1940.

RtW

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To be precise...
It's about a Rotterdam streetboy who signs onto a ship as a 'Ketelbinkie'
a cabin boy, to be able to support his old mother. But even though he does
his very best, he cannot survive the hardships of the life on board. In
the end, he dies of exhaustion and disease. A tragic end.

It's a historical song. Every dutchman knows at least the first line of
the song. :-)

Most people sing: Toen wij uit Rotterdam vertrokken.. The actual song goes:
Toen wij van Rotterdam vertrokken.

RtW

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:28:01 +0200, "The_Borg"
wrote:

To be precise...
It's about a Rotterdam streetboy who signs onto a ship as a 'Ketelbinkie' a
cabin boy, to be able to support his old mother. But even though he does his
very best, he cannot survive the hardships of the life on board. In the end,
he dies of exhaustion and disease. A tragic end.

It's a historical song. Every dutchman knows at least the first line of the
song. :-)
True tis a sad song. Not knowing the words it was nice to listen to.
Great to see you still aroung old Borg.

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To be precise...
It's about a Rotterdam streetboy who signs onto a ship as a 'Ketelbinkie'
a
cabin boy, to be able to support his old mother. But even though he does
his
very best, he cannot survive the hardships of the life on board. In the
end,
he dies of exhaustion and disease. A tragic end.

It's a historical song. Every dutchman knows at least the first line of
the
song. :-)
True tis a sad song. Not knowing the words it was nice to listen to.
Great to see you still aroung old Borg.

Borg is many years younger than we joevan;-)
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Bouler (The Netherlands

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:50:31 +0200, "Bouler"
wrote:


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To be precise...
It's about a Rotterdam streetboy who signs onto a ship as a 'Ketelbinkie'
a
cabin boy, to be able to support his old mother. But even though he does
his
very best, he cannot survive the hardships of the life on board. In the
end,
he dies of exhaustion and disease. A tragic end.

It's a historical song. Every dutchman knows at least the first line of
the
song. :-)
True tis a sad song. Not knowing the words it was nice to listen to.
Great to see you still aroung old Borg.

Borg is many years younger than we joevan;-)
I was just using slang. Meaning a long time on this ng with us. Old
friend.

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To be precise...
It's about a Rotterdam streetboy who signs onto a ship as a
'Ketelbinkie'
a
cabin boy, to be able to support his old mother. But even though he does
his
very best, he cannot survive the hardships of the life on board. In the
end,
he dies of exhaustion and disease. A tragic end.

It's a historical song. Every dutchman knows at least the first line of
the
song. :-)
True tis a sad song. Not knowing the words it was nice to listen to.
Great to see you still aroung old Borg.

Borg is many years younger than we joevan;-)
I was just using slang. Meaning a long time on this ng with us. Old
friend.

I understood;-)
BTW, I found this page about Ketelbinkie, when you put your cursor on the
colored words, you see the translation in 4 languages.
Of course its a computertranslation but anyway;-)

http://www.statvoks.no/sigurd/popup_ketelbinkie.htm
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Groeten
Bouler (The Netherlands