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Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees in Middle English (English in the period 1100s to 1400s)

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Wel, thou canst see by the weye I walke
I am a lover man, no tyme to speke
Songes loud and wyfes warm, hadde I been kicked around
Syn I was bore
And now it is goode, it is well
And thou mighte look the other weye
We cunne to understonde
The lustful innes effect on man
Be ye a sire or be ye wenche
So thou blivest quike, blivest quike
Feel the citee brekynge, everichon shakynge
And so we bliven quike, bliven quike
Ah, ha, ha, ha, bliven quike, bliven quike
Ah, ha, ha, ha, bliven quike
Wel now, I daunce low and I daunce high
And if neither can I get, soothly I fandie
Got wynges of hevene on my shoes
I dance oft and I can soothly nat losen
And now it is goode, it is well
I shall bliven another day
We cunne to understonde
The lustful innes effect on man
Be ye a sire or be ye wenche
So thou blivest quike, blivest quike
Feel the citee brekynge, everichon shakynge
And so we bliven quike, bliven quike
Ah, ha, ha, ha, bliven quike, bliven quike
Ah, ha, ha, ha, bliven quike (ohh)
Lyfe goeth nowher, somebody help me
Somebody help me, yeah
Lyfe goeth nowher, somebody help me
So I blive quike
Wel, thou canst see by the weye I walke
I am a lover man, no tyme to speke
Songes loud and wyfes warm, hadde I been kicked around
Syn I was bore
And now it is goode, it is well
And thou mighte look the other weye
We cunne to understonde
The lustful innes effect on man
Be ye a sire or be ye wenche
So thou blivest quike, blivest quike
Feel the citee brekynge, everichon shakynge
And so we bliven quike, bliven quike
Ah, ha, ha, ha, bliven quike, bliven quike
Ah, ha, ha, ha, bliven quike
Lyfe goeth nowher, somebody help me
Somebody help me, yea
Lyfe goeth nowher, somebody help me, yea
So I blive quike
Lyfe goeth nowher, somebody help me
Somebody help me, yea (ah, ah, ah)
Lyfe goeth nowher, somebody help me, yea
So I blive quike
Lyfe goeth nowher, somebody help me
Somebody help me, yea (ah, ah, ah, ay)
Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yea
So I blive quike
Lyfe goeth nowher, somebody help me
Somebody help me, yea (ohh)
Lyfe goeth nowher, somebody help me, yea
So I blive quike
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@akasha9811 2 года назад

Absolute love!! I'm an English teacher in Spain and my colleagues and me keep sending each other these songs!! We are thinking of making a karaoke with our students!!! 😂😂

@mechanee9444 19 дней назад

NEEDS MORE RECOGNITION i love ittt

@turd8500 22 дня назад

When you've survived the latest plague and go through the town square gloating.

@TheAtomicT Год назад

You guys are underated

@willwithers8171 2 года назад

Many words sound very Dutch! Love it

@diegot.guimaraesyaqubabdal4622 2 года назад

Dutch Aussie, sounded to me hehe

@troodon1096 2 года назад

Well Dutch has common ancestry to English, so makes sense.

@loganpaschedag8829 Год назад

Funny you say that because English has a lot of Dutch influence at that point for a and already had it do to the fact that English is a Germanic language.

@dancingduck870 Год назад

These songs need to be on Apple Music

@stevenfisher6670 Месяц назад

This doeth slappith 😊

@alexandrashvydun8726 Год назад

glorious

@Urlocallordandsavior 2 года назад

Hey Silly Linguistics, got a question. Did pre-modern English speakers speak with a heavily trilled r's like Scottish people do today?

@stevevagabond 2 года назад

We aren't really sure. All germanic languages were once one language which linguists call Proto Germanic. As time progressed the various dialects of Germanic became distinct languages but they all retain a few common features. Swedish and Icelandic have a trilled R, like Scottish English. But German, Danish and some Swedish dialects have a /ʁ/ sound (which is the same sound as the way "r" is pronounced in French. This is probably just an affectation borrowed from French since the prestige of French probably made it sound fancy. Intriguingly, English is not the only language with the "English r" which in International Phonetic Alphabet is /ɹ/. Faroese has it too and so do some dialects of Dutch. If we look further afield in the Indo European languages, we see the /r/ (the trill sound) in languages like Spanish and Italian. So its entirely possible the /r/ sound goes all the way back to the original mother language of so many languages of European, called Proto Indo European by linguists. And this sound was then inherited by Proto Germanic. When did English get the /ɹ/? We don't really know. And the fact that Faroese has it too means it might have developed a long time ago. Scottish R could come from the Norse who settled there, and their descendant languages like Swedish still have it. So its entirely possible Middle English already had the modern English /ɹ/, or it just had a /r/ like modern Swedish. Its actually a very interesting conundrum which continues to make learning languages and spotting commonalities and differences interesting to me. I want to make more videos in other germanic languages and also display different eras and branches of the germanic languages :)

@Urlocallordandsavior 2 года назад

@@stevevagabond One other question, what caused the Great Vowel Shift, and is it possible that Scandinavian/Celtic influences played a major role in it (instead of the traditional Norman elites narrative)? Also did Celtic not leave any influences onto English?

@princessscotchtape8931 2 года назад

@@Urlocallordandsavior A theory for Celtic influence is the do-support that English has. "Did you eat?" "Heb je gegeten?" We tend to form a lot of sentences with Do being mandatory. Celtic languages do the same with their own word for do. The vowel shift happened over a long period of time, with many dialects missing out on some phases. I assume it just happened for ease of pronunciation. The theories are population migration, French loan words, middle class hypercorrection and war with France.

@WGGplant 2 месяца назад

@@Urlocallordandsavior⁠⁠ It's unlikely. Chances are that nothing caused it. It's very common for vowels to start to shift. It's happening even still today in English. Most people believe that it was resulting from mass migration after the bubonic plague. Huge masses of different dialects were migrating to different cities to find work. Influencing the way those places spoke.