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Re: "The Dreaming" Question

From: nessus@mit.edu (Douglas Alan)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 05:34:36 GMT
Subject: Re: "The Dreaming" Question
In-Reply-To: ac506@lafn.org's message of Sat, 19 Nov 1994 14:13:34 -0500
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In article <1994Nov19.191202.4584@lafn.org> ac506@lafn.org (Lisa
Morton) writes:

>   Can anyone identify/translate the aboriginal line at the end
>   of "The Dreaming"?

They are lyrics from an Aboriginal song entitled "Aeroplane,
Aeroplane", which is perhaps the earliest Aboriginal song about an
aeroplane.  Unfortunately, I do not know what the lyrics are.  My
source is John Carder Bush, who when I asked remembered the source,
but not the exact content of the lyrics.

|>oug