{"id":924,"date":"2010-10-25T17:44:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=924"},"modified":"2010-10-25T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:44:17","slug":"killing-the-walrus-with-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/killing-the-walrus-with-fungus\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing the walrus with Fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fungus - Kaap&#039;ren Varen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LaZ8Hg2G_sc?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>In sifting through old emails, I recently rediscovered a traditional Dutch song called \u201cKaap\u2019ren Varen,\u201d as re-imagined by the 1970\u2019s folk-rock group Fungus.\u00a0 I learn from the internet that they came from Eindhoven, and that they played and wrote songs mostly for <em>werkend en werklose mannen<\/em> \u2013 working and out-of-work men.<\/p>\n<p>I can imagine that this song \u2013 whose lyrics I didn\u2019t understand when it was first played for me \u2013 found a happy audience among the young working men of the 1970s.\u00a0 The vocabulary is all old Dutch, but the basic idea of the song is that only men with beards are allowed to fare the seas.\u00a0 The refrain lays it out in the following way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jan, Piert, Joris en Corneel<br \/>\nDie hebben baarden, die hebben baarden<br \/>\nJan, Piert, Joris en Corneel<br \/>\nDie hebben baarden, zij varen mee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although Dutch grooming was probably quite different in the \u201870s, and was obviously different for the members of Fungus, I have to say that beards are not the prevalent form of facial hair that I notice on today\u2019s Jan, Piert, Joris en Corneel.\u00a0 Dutch men seem to favor being completely shaven (heads too), or sporting elaborate mustaches.<\/p>\n<p>According to the song, other activities allotted exclusively to the bearded include: <em>deftige pijpkens smoren <\/em>(smoking stylish pipes) en <em>de walrus killen <\/em>(killing the walrus).\u00a0 (Note that in the old Dutch of the song, \u201ckillen\u201d is used instead of \u201cdood maken\u201d \u2013 English and Dutch are never too far apart.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In sifting through old emails, I recently rediscovered a traditional Dutch song called \u201cKaap\u2019ren Varen,\u201d as re-imagined by the 1970\u2019s folk-rock group Fungus.\u00a0 I learn from the internet that they came from Eindhoven, and that they played and wrote songs mostly for werkend en werklose mannen \u2013 working and out-of-work men. I can imagine that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/killing-the-walrus-with-fungus\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12078,12077,12075,12076,12079],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beards","tag-eindhoven","tag-fungus","tag-traditional-dutch-songs","tag-walrus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}