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[tomato]

Here is a song entitled �� ������ (a walk in the springtime).
You can read the music:



or listen to it:

http://kr.kids.yahoo.com/song/piano/piano09

The words mean:

Look at the forsythia blossoms.
They open up and get plucked at the heads.
Chicks take small steps.
We take a spring walk.

I have noticed that this melody perfectly fits the "Little Willie" poems:

Little Willie, full of hell
Threw his sister down the well.
Mother said, while drawing water,
"It's so hard to raise a daughter."

Willie, with a thirst for gore,
Nailed his sister to the door.
Mother said, with humor quaint,
"Willie, dear, don't mar the paint."

Willie, in his nice new sashes,
Fell in the fire and burned to ashes.
Now, although the room grows chilly,
I haven't the heart to poke up Willie.

Little Willie hung his sister
She was dead before we missed her
Willie is always up to tricks
Ain't he cute? and He's just six!

Willie poisoned his father's tea
His father died in agony
Mother came and looked quite vexed
"Really, Will," she said, "What next!"

Willie saw some dynamite,
Couldn't understand it quite;
Curiosity never pays.
It rained Willie seven days.

Willie, in a fit insane,
Thrust his head beneath a train.
All the folks were pleased to find
How it broadened Willie's mind.

Willie, tired of stealing cars,
Stole a rocket, flew to Mars.
There he sought his usual pattern.
Now the Martians live on Saturn.

In the terminology of Jean Warren, editor of Totline Press, a piggyback song is a song consisting of an existing melody and original lyrics. In the terminology of Doerothy D. Horn, author of Sing to Me of Heaven, a contrafactum is a song consisting of an existing melody and lyrics for which that melody was not originally intended. Either term is fine with me.

Can anyone come up with any other Korean songs which fit with English lyrics?
Or vice-versa?
Or any more Little Willie poems?

[PEIGUY]

i think Willie has some behavioural problems!