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Huh.  I have no problems accenting it correctly while singing.

In fact, in my dialect the accent is penultimate; "rock a bye
BAH-bee/in the TREE top".

-Robin

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 04:11:23PM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote:
>   Love it, but unfortunately, it doesn't exactly work with the original
> tune, which (like most English songs) accent the last syllable on the
> lines, which is a lojbanic no-no for brivla..
>                 --gejyspa
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > To the tune of "rock-a-bye baby".  And, in fact, as a response to
> > that song (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-a-bye_Baby ; the
> > version I know in the "most common" one there, approx).
> >
> > I'm having some scansion trouble with the first line; it was fine
> > until I realised that I needed "lo selsanga" instead of "lo sanga".
> >
> > mi pu zu tirna / lo selsanga
> > .i srana le cifnu / poi tricu cpana
> > .i mi no roi djuno / lo fenki rinka
> > .i ku'i do gleki / lo xamgu mamta
> >
> > -Robin
> >
> >
> > --
> > http://singinst.org/ :  Our last, best hope for a fantastic future.
> > Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot
> > is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false"
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