May 7, 2002
Today’s earworm
Dahil sa iyo, a cheesy Tagalog love song, going round and round and round and round….
Dahil sa iyo, nais kong mabuhay
Dahil sa iyo, hanggang mamatay
Dapat mong tantuin, wala ng ibang giliw
Puso ko’y tanungin, ikaw at ikaw rin
I’ve just discovered (after knowing this song for a dozen years) that the words are in fact so saccharine as to make one’s teeth hurt when singing. Well, there you go.
I used to sing in an international choir – songs in funny languages our speciality, though we did a cracking Jerusalem once.
Anyway, this has meant that I can churn out passable lyric phrases in Russian, Swedish, Kiswahili, Japanese and a number of other languages, as long as you don’t expect me to actually have a conversation or say anything beyond “work, love, like the song of a bird, your heart, my love…” or “I can row a boat, but I cannot sail without wind” which is fine if you want people to think you are enigmatic and/or a bit mad, but not so handy when it comes to purchasing plums.
