Summerween Prompt: GRAVE
If you explore cemeteries, sometimes you will find dogs or sheep carved onto gravestones ( mostly for children )
It’s sad to say that most of the gravestones are very old- considering how how the mortality rate for children used to be, so there aren’t very many new ones and these older gravestones are fading with age.
The thing of it is, we put those animals there- the dogs, the sheep because of the religious significance and as far as dogs- for protection and companionship.
Riverside Memorial Park
Also known as Waushara Cemetery, Fox Lake Cemetery
Fox Lake, Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Photo A.M. Moscoso
However, there are times when animals just decide to claim the gravestones for their own and for their own reasons.
Photo A.M Moscoso
Photo: A.M Moscoso
For this week’s Thursday Inspiration prompt, Jim Adams has given us the word “away,” and suggests we write about a song written in a foreign language and then became a hit in English.
One of my favorite songs- sung by one of the hottest looking men from the 8o’s music scene was Austrian artist Falco (Johann Hölzel)
” Rock Me Amadeus ” was released in German and became a hit in German. It was also released in English but it lost a little something in the translation, so I still prefer to listen to it in German. I had friends who were from Germany so I knew what the song was about and I left it at that.
Falco was a complicated person, but he had a great voice and I loved his music. He died in a car crash in 1998
Photo taken by de:Benutzer:Priwo, Public Domain
For RDP Friday: WADDLE
If you are going to ask me for the first thing that pops into my head when you say the word ” waddle ” I’m going to flash on my then 3 year old ( he’s now pushing 40) son singing
Honk, honk, waddle, waddle
duckies really stink
Honk honk waddle, waddle
skiddy mahrinky dink
Honk honk waddle waddle
duckies really stink
Oh!
Honk, waddle waddle song says
duckies really
stink
Photographer Unknown
All I know is that this is that he had a tape called ” We Sing Silly Songs ” and that all he got right was “Honk, honk waddle waddle” and based on a youtube clip he got the melody right, but the lyrics were his own. In fact, I liked Julio’s version so much, I never did go out of my way to hear the ‘real’ version.
This is the way the song goes for real- complete with a kid to sing it for you: