Belgium songThis is a well known song about Bruges and its people.
It’s based on the history of the Old Hospital of Saint John in Bruges. Ill people came from all over the province to be treated here. In the evening the city gates closed. The nurses called the people who were waiting to go back home that inhabitants of the city had to line up at the rear, so the other people could leave the town on time. |
Zie je van BruggeZie je van Brugge, zet je vanachter,
Je moe van voren in de reke nie gon stoan. Zie je van Brugge, zet je vanachter, Mé zowwe zot van voren zoe ta' toch nie' goan? Want ze zeggen damme zot zien, mo dat is dwoaze proat, Me zien verdroaid zo zot nie ofdat onze mutse stoat Mo zie je van Brugge zet je vanachter, Je moe van voren in de reke nie gon stoan. Zie je van Brugge, zet je vanachter, Of eel d'n boel zou kunnen no de knoppn goan. |