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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

Do not talk about a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby.

Michael Finnegan:

There was an old man named Michael Finnegan,
He grew whiskers on his chinnigin,
The wind came around and blew them in again,
Poor old Michael Finnegan,
begin again.

There was an old man named Michael Finnegan,...

Waltzing Matilda:


Once a jolly swagman camped beside a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he sat and waited while his billy boiled,
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?

CHORUS
Waltzing Matilda,...

Night of the Saint Andrew

On the 30th of November, Romaian people is celebrating Saint Andrew, the spiritual patriarch of Romania.

The night before Saint Andrew's Eve is known as the night of the ghosts( strigoi), strigoi means in Romanian...

Blue Christmas

I'll have a blue Christmas without you.
I'll be so blue thinking about you.
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree,
Won't mean a thing if you're not here with me.

And when the blue snowflakes start falling,...

Do you hear what I hear

Said the night wind to the little lamb,
Do you see what I see, way up in the sky, little lamb?
Do you see what I see? A star, a star, dancing in the night,
With a tail as big as a kite,
With a tail as big as a...

Merry Christmas, Darling

Greeting cards have all been sent,
The Christmas rush is through,
But I still have one more wish to make,
A special one for you.

Merry Christmas, Darling
We're apart, that's true,
But I can dream, and in...

Santa Claus is coming to town

I just came back from a lovely trip along the Milky Way.
I stopped off at the North Pole to spend a holiday.
I called on dear old Santa Claus to see what I could see.
He took me to his workshop and told his...

He comes with Clouds Descending

Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
God appears on earth to reign.

Every...

I'll Be Home For Christmas:

I'll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree

Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams...

If you want to sit under a shade in your old age plant a tree now.

The mouse says: I dig a hole without a hoe; the snake says: climb a tree without arms.

To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.

If you don't eat mangos that fall on the ground, be sure to be strong enough to pick ones on the tree.

A palm wine taper does not stop tapping palm wine because he once fell from the top of a palm wine tree.

A family is like a thick forest, often from outside its dense, when your inside each tree has its own position.

The rabbit that dances on the broken branch of a high tree must look down to see how many mouths are opened wide beneath.

If you knock your head against a wall, then a coconut tree and pillar and your head still remains undamaged my child, go and hide that head of yours; it is a good head.

Only birds of the same clan or species play together on the same tree.