Thread: Pippin's Song
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Old 05-28-2005, 03:27 PM   #9
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But the same words can take on even opposite meanings depending on context.
The verses become only ambiguous or even change in meaning because in the movie the lines that refer to coming home:

Then world behind and home ahead,
We'll wander back to home and bed.

and
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!


are left out!

I didn't recognize where the words of Pippin's song came from for a long time, because the mood is so very different from the original walking song.
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