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Tanuki

(14,929 posts)
Tue Jun 4, 2013, 08:01 AM Jun 2013

"Burra ferra" from "The Sapphires" movie

I saw the Australian film "The Sapphires" over the weekend. It takes place during the Viet Nam war, and is loosely based on the true story of some young Aboriginal sisters/cousins who wind up entertaining the troops in the war zone. I enjoyed the movie very much and although most of the music consists of sizzling Motown covers, I loved the song that they sang in the indigenous Yorta Yorta language:

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