{"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":"<div id=\"attachment_2206\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28827847@N08\/5194396271\" aria-label=\"5194396271 D9c89c3bde Z 300x204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2206\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2206\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2013\/06\/5194396271_d9c89c3bde_z-300x204.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">lilshepherd \/ Flickr Creative Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Liberation Day\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/liberation-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>And it&#8217;s in these sorts of circumstances that boys meet girls.<\/p>\n<p>Young, foreign men in uniform swept Dutch girls off their feet and, often, back to Canada, America, or wherever else with them.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon occurred with such frequency that a song was written about it: <em>Trees Heeft een Canadees<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Not trees, as in the tall plants that grow in forests and jungles and are used to make paper. Trees (pronounced &#8220;trace&#8221;) is a girl&#8217;s name. Trees has a Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the song, complete with lyrics to the refrain (in Dutch):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trees heeft een Canadees\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xawvpIgZ7Fs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolyrics.com\/trees-heeft-een-canadees-lyrics-albert-de-booy.html\" target=\"_blank\">read the lyrics in their entirety<\/a>\u00a0here.<\/p>\n<p>Catchy, huh?<\/p>\n<p>But what does it mean? Here&#8217;s a rough translation:<\/p>\n<p>A girl lives in my street<br \/>\nShe goes by the name of Trees<br \/>\nA real Dutch appearance<br \/>\nGood looking and plump (if you have a better translation of <em>aardig in d&#8217;r vlees<\/em>, let me know in the comments below)<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t need to be courted<br \/>\nShe considered it healthy to make love<br \/>\nBut right after the liberation<br \/>\nThe rumors were going around<\/p>\n<p>Trees has got a Canadian<br \/>\nOh, how smitten the child is<br \/>\nTrees has got a Canadian<br \/>\nTogether in the jeep and then full throttle<\/p>\n<p>Though she thinks English isn&#8217;t half bad,<br \/>\nShe really wants to know what a &#8216;kiss&#8217; is<br \/>\nTrees has got a Canadian<br \/>\nOh how smitten the child is<\/p>\n<p>When a Dutch admirer spoke<br \/>\nTo her of marriage and such<br \/>\nThe answer he got was<br \/>\n\u201cNothing doing (absolutely not), I\u2019ll buy a bike!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Treesje is studying<br \/>\nEvery afternoon she has a lesson<br \/>\nTill now the extent of her English<br \/>\nWas only: \u201cOkay\u201d and \u201cyes!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trees has got a Canadian<br \/>\nOh, how smitten the child is<br \/>\nTrees has got a Canadian<br \/>\nTogether in the jeep and then full throttle<\/p>\n<p>Though she thinks English isn\u2019t half bad,<br \/>\nShe wants to know what a kiss is<br \/>\nTrees has got a Canadian<br \/>\nOh how smitten the child is<\/p>\n<p>When she sees a uniform<br \/>\nShe goes out of her mind<br \/>\nYou ask her \u201c Do you know what love is?\u201d<br \/>\nShe says wistfully: \u201cVery nice!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what will happen to Treesje<br \/>\nIf her boy from Canada<br \/>\nDisappears before long<br \/>\nTo his \u201chome\u201d in Ottawa<\/p>\n<p>Women like Trees were known as &#8220;war brides&#8221; and left their homes all over Europe and Canada to follow their boys to another country.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re planning to be in the Netherlands between now and November 24, 2013, you can &#8216;meet&#8217; these women and hear some of their stories at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevrijdingsmuseum.nl\/Basis.aspx?Tid=746&amp;Lid=23&amp;Lit=VIEW&amp;QUERY=NBMU_nieuws.Id='112'#.UcGmfPmYGBJ\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Canadian War Brides: A one-way passage to love<\/em> exhibition<\/a> at the Nationaal Bevrijdingsmuseum 1944-1945 (National Liberation Museum 1944-1945) just outside of Nijmegen in Groesbeek.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition includes rare video footage of a war bride, artifacts, and hauntingly beautiful oil-on-plywood portraits of war brides by <a href=\"http:\/\/warbrides.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian artist Bev Tosh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2013\/06\/5194396271_d9c89c3bde_z-350x238.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2013\/06\/5194396271_d9c89c3bde_z-350x238.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2013\/06\/5194396271_d9c89c3bde_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>The Netherlands was liberated in 1945. As you can imagine, after years of oppression, there was much dancing and partying and celebration. And it&#8217;s in these sorts of circumstances that boys meet girls. Young, foreign men in uniform swept Dutch girls off their feet and, often, back to Canada, America, or wherever else with them&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/trees-heeft-een-candadees\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[60713],"tags":[178,2277,108,3664],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-2","tag-history","tag-lyrics","tag-music","tag-world-war-ii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}