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decreaseMy love is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June :
My love is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I:
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Robert Burns
My love is like a hazelnut,
Her skin is juist as broon;
My love is like a lotus flower
That is in Thailand groon.
But when I said, “My bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I!”
She said, “Di chan mai kao jai ka* -
Please speak Engrish or Thai.”
An’ when I said, “I love thee dear
Till a’ the seas gang dry!”
She said, “Di chan mai kao jai ka -
Please speak Engrish or Thai.”
An’ when I said, “Ye bloom sae fair,
Like banks o’ Doon - och, aye!”
She said, “Di chan mai kao jai ka -
Please speak Engrish or Thai.”
An’ when I said, “For auld lang syne,
Drink th’ cup o’ kindness dry!”
She said, “Di chan mai kao jai ka -
Please speak Engrish or Thai.”
But when I said, “Hoo many poond
For a bonnie lass like thee?”
She said, “Barfine, five hundred baht,
And three thousand for me.”
So fare-thee-weel, ma Thailand love!
Fare-weel thou Land o’ Smiles -
But I’ll suin coom again ma love,
Thoogh it’s sex-thousand miles.
* I dinnae understand
© Bangkok Byron, 2007. All rights reserved by the author.
From ‘The Monger’s Golden Treasury’
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January 25, 2007, 08:16
Hilarious! Rabby would'a bin prood.