Basket of Songs 5

Lietus Lāses - Raindrops

In this series, I have been posting pages from a hand written song book left to me by my father.  The book is titled Bakset of Songs: Let our Songs Ring out, Brussels Prisoner-of-War Camp December 1945It is also labeled with my father's initials J Č. Click on the following link : Basket of Songs to view the rest of the series.

Ilze, who has been doing an incredible job of translating the Letters from Latvia series has been kind enough to provide a translation of the song titles and a summary of the themes involved. The songs individually over the coming weeks and where I can, I will link to a performance of the melody. At this time, I won't be posting full translations for most of these songs -the Leters from Lativa series will be taking priority.

Song 5 in the book is titled: Lietus Lāses - Raindrops

When raindrops knock on your window, that will be like a quiet greeting from me.

Page 5 of Basket of Songs - Brussels Prisoner-of-war camp, December 1945
The renditions of this song found on youtube seem too Jazzy to be likely (contemporary) renditions of this song... If you find a good rendition online somewhere post a link in the comments and I will update this post.

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