If this is a standard Ab quip
Held in a Wetherspoons, perhaps?
then i agree mine are a bit wordy.
Joke yeah- you know the bit about the greek psalm sung by er greeks like phil was? well I thought they were gonna say next, and for Phil's German roots, Here are some WWII vets singing the horst Wessel song. hur hur hur - or the Birdie song in lederhosen
you need to know a bitta history to understand that one
You know the two part Alleluia (*) ? I said to the room, allay-----(gap) - - - -- looya! ..... ( thx to Spike Milligan I think)
The gospel choir tenors had a very tricky line to follow a cappella.
well the FIRST part - clap your hands all you people Ps 47
I jerked my head out of my reverie and said
πάντα τὰ ἔθνη κροτήσατε χεῖρας ἀλαλάξατε τῷ θεῷ ἐν φωνῇ ἀγαλλιάσεως
we dug that up in Qasr Ibrim 1980. From around 1100 A, paper and carbon soot ink
Clearly um there was a version before we found it in Old Nubian and greek bilingual.
My link to the text of the ritual of the coronation
ynni will go off her trolley when she reads that !
(*) Yeah dont forget - Pope Gregory the Great said of aryan child slaves on sale at Rome - "who day?" ( but in Latin)
Sunt angli ( they are Angles, domine, Lord)
Non sunt angli sed angeli ( they are not Angles but Angels)
then the Saint went onto ask the name of their King ( the king who he den? but in Latin) and was told Alle
They shall not say Alle but Allleluia ! said the pope
and sent Augustine off to convert them.