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Swiss Songs On The Emigrants To The U.S., L. B.
Swiss Songs On The Emigrants To The U.S., L. B.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Our remarks in the first Newsletter on the Sviss folk song scolding the emigrants to the U.S. for tearing up their citizenship certificate ("Du willst den Burgerbrief zerreissen, den dir das teure Hochland gab") has provoked a well documented comment by the Swiss Consul General in New York, Dr. Hans Lacher, who has collected literature on the different versions of this song from the serious earlier text.to the later ironical deviations most of us remember.