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  • Ten Thousand Swedes

    From spinz2win2@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Aadu Pilt on Sat Mar 14 17:42:19 2020
    On Monday, March 25, 1996 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Aadu Pilt wrote:
    There was a play about Norwegians in the U.S. in the early 1900s called,
    I think, "I remember Mama." From that, I appear to recall a couple of
    lines of "poetry" that went something like:

    Ten thousand Swedes went through the weeds
    Chasing one Norwegian.

    Can anyone tell me what this is all about? Does it have to do with
    Norwegian independence from the Swedish kingdom in ?1895?

    Thank you. "Tack so mycket".

    --
    Aadu Pilt
    aadu.pilt@freenet.hamilton.on.ca

    Dad said this in swedish ,i remember 44 svedes ver chased thru the veeds by
    von lone norvegian. This was in Swedish.

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  • From bobc47@comcast.net@21:1/5 to Aadu Pilt on Mon Jun 15 10:40:22 2020
    On Monday, March 25, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Aadu Pilt wrote:
    There was a play about Norwegians in the U.S. in the early 1900s called,
    I think, "I remember Mama." From that, I appear to recall a couple of
    lines of "poetry" that went something like:

    Ten thousand Swedes went through the weeds
    Chasing one Norwegian.

    Can anyone tell me what this is all about? Does it have to do with
    Norwegian independence from the Swedish kingdom in ?1895?

    Thank you. "Tack so mycket".

    --
    Aadu Pilt
    aadu.pilt@freenet.hamilton.on.ca

    My grandfather's second verse went like this -

    10,000 more were held at the door
    by one Norwegian whore

    It was mixed marriage (swede and Norwegian, some of the arguments were interesting . . .

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