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Why is it that every busker with a brass instrument in this city plays the theme song from “The Godfather”?
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8 comments:
Please define "busker" for the rural and uninformed.
It's a sweet word. Means someone who performs an instrument for money on the street. Neat, huh?
Probably the same reason ever busker with a melodica plays "La Cucuracha." Annoying.
I wonder where it came from. I can't figure out any couple of words that would slush together to be busker.
It's actually a word in its own right. Busking used to mean to sell things in bars. (You know, like those guys who go around selling single roses?).
I hate the pan flute guys who play Simon and Garfunkle songs. Hate. My friend Deb just came back from Peru with a CD she bought of "authentic" Peruvian flute music. Half of it is S&G.
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
"Earlier, to be an itinerant performer, probably from busk, to go about seeking, cruise as a pirate, perhaps from obsolete French busquer, to prowl, from Italian buscare, to prowl, or Spanish buscar, to seek, from Old Spanish boscar."
I like words.
So they are seeking, prowling pirates. Interesting.
Before I clicked to this page I was going to say I didn't know what a busker was. Nevermind. Thank you everyone.
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