glau-u-be

Updated: May 22, 2025

And as they fly they sing a wistful little waltz song, a sort of cradle song: "Ich glau-u-be... Ich glau-u-be Da oben fliegt... 'ne Taube..." They are thinking, so the song runs, that there is a Taube overhead; it has flown here out of its German nest, and let's hope it will not let anything fall on them.

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