Whoever wants to know
what religion is all about
let him find out
about Santa Krutz (the priest)
The hell with good works
he just wants to kill people
I wonder how much blood will take
to satisfy him.
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Luistxo Fernandez wrote:
(moztu)
> Relijiñua zer dan
> nahi duenak jakin
> enteratu dadilla
> Santa Kurutzekin.
> Obra onak atzera,
> heriotzak egin,
> ia noiz asetzen dan
> iñon odolakin.
>
> (I don't dare to translate finely to English...)
>
> You can find that here:
> http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Cafe/5812/kantu1.html
>
> altogether with many other old Basque songs from Eibar, including some
> verses of the 17th century, religious songs dedicated to the Virgin of
> Arrate, and songs of the Carlist wars in the 19th century
>
> courtesy of Eibartarrak Mailing List & Home Page
> http://www.egroups.com/group/eibartarrak / http://surf.to/eibar
>
> Luistxo
>
Izan untsa,
Roz
At 02:06 PM 4/29/99 +0700, you wrote:
>Remember the brilliant statement by Philip Silver sent here by David?
>
>Prof. Silver stated that "Euskara, unlike Catalan, had a sparse written,
>and virtually no
>secular literary, tradition, being primarily spoken in modern times by
farmers
>and rural clergy"
>
>Well, here you have a nice piece of urban euskara (written in the urban
>environment of Eibar in the 19th century), strongly anti-clergy... It is a
>song against the Santa Kruz priest, the well known basque Carlist guerrilla
>leader, not so beloved by all Basques, as it is obvious.