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youste
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Could you help?
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Could anyone explain this sentence, please:
"The song had a ghost in it, so we sang it lots of times". I can �t understand that part with a ghost - it couldn �t mean "the spirit of dead person"? Thank you for your explanations:) |
18 Feb 2014
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dutchboydvh
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Could it mean that the song was about a ghost (The ghost (a spirit of a dead person) was in the song�s lyrics), and because the kids enjoyed it, they sang it many times?
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19 Feb 2014
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s.lefevre
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Ghost here can mean that there was a difficult part, and people struggled over that part. So they had to repeat it over and over. |
19 Feb 2014
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Jayho
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Hi Youste
Did your text give the title of the Australian song?
Also, is the text online so that we can have a look?
My initial feeling is that it is a song that contains reference to a ghost, or a spirit of a dead person, and that the students enjoyed it because of that reference. We�d have to read the text or see the song lyrics to verify the actual meaning.
Cheers
Jayho
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19 Feb 2014
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jannabanna
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Could it mean that something has been repeated? Like in: ghost character. |
19 Feb 2014
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lovegrammar
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Maybe it means the song is a ghost track, with lots of hidden meanings so singing/reading/repeating it over and over reveals the hidden meanings. |
19 Feb 2014
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Jayho
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I�ve got it!
It�s probably the popular Australian song "Waltzing Matilda"(apparently one of the world�s ten most recorded songs). It�s about a swagman that stole a sheep. Instead of going with the troopers, he decided to jump into a billabong (where he drowned) but if you pass by that billabong today you can still hear his ghost singing Waltzing Matilda.
Up got the swaggie and jumped into the billabong
You �ll never catch me alive said he
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong
You �ll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me You can watch a video here - it nicely illustrates the song meaning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SANzC9-a5yo
Cheers
Jayho |
19 Feb 2014
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The text is about school and a teacher who offers his students to sing a song about Australia. I thought maybe it could mean "inspiring song" 
Yes, it is a "Waltzing Matilda"!!!! Thank you so much. I didn �t have the lyrics, so it was so cunfusing