{"id":2205,"date":"2013-06-19T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T12:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2013-06-23T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T22:03:20","slug":"trees-heeft-een-candadees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/trees-heeft-een-candadees\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees heeft een Candadees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Netherlands was liberated in 1945<\/a>. As you can imagine, after years of oppression, there was much dancing and partying and celebration.<\/p>\n

And it’s in these sorts of circumstances that boys meet girls.<\/p>\n

Young, foreign men in uniform swept Dutch girls off their feet and, often, back to Canada, America, or wherever else with them.<\/p>\n

This phenomenon occurred with such frequency that a song was written about it: Trees Heeft een Canadees<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Not trees, as in the tall plants that grow in forests and jungles and are used to make paper. Trees (pronounced “trace”) is a girl’s name. Trees has a Canadian.<\/p>\n

Here’s a video of the song, complete with lyrics to the refrain (in Dutch):<\/p>\n