St Martin's Song

A St Martin's song is a song sung during the St. Martin feast in honour of Saint Martin, usually on the name day of Saint Martin of Tours, november 11, or on the evening prior. Although the oldest St Martin's Act explicitly about the Holy songs, modern songs rather humorous in nature and is not even mentioned in some Saint Martin.

St Martin's songs are for folklorists interesting because they are almost all in an exclusively oral tradition, while many sinterklaas songs originally written by copywriters. The tune of the songs is often the same and is strongly reminiscent of the melody of water get Two buckets or Sinterklaas kapoentje -typical folk tunes. The texts of St Martin's songs vary widely from region to region and have different themes. Many texts are still in dialect, when St Martin's songs also makes interesting for linguists .



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[hide] *1 Oldest sites  ==Oldest sites[ Edit] == ===Saints songs, praise songs, drinking songs[ Edit] === The oldest recorded songs about St. Maarten in the Dutch song database of the Meertens Institute date back to the sixteenth century. The handwriting of a rhetorician Eduard de Dene, Testament Rhetoricael(Bruges, 1561-1562) contains a song of 12 verses with the incipit: ' vynden not ghilden on all platforms/Wy then great ongheval '. It's a drinking song in which St. Maarten is called. [1]  the feast of Saint Martin, on 11 november, was the beginning of the wine year, which may explain the link with a drinking song. [2]
 * 1.1 Saints songs, praise songs, drinking songs
 * 1.2 children's songs, mendicant songs
 * 2 Contemporary songs
 * 2.1 Mocking St Martin's songs
 * 2.2 to a close door
 * 2.3 Saint Martin Madhavi
 * Netherlands 3
 * 3.1 the northern provinces
 * 3.2 North Holland
 * 3.3 Gelderland and Overijssel
 * 3.4 the southern provinces
 * Flanders 4
 * West Flanders 4.1
 * 4.2 East Flanders
 * 4.3 the Mechelen area
 * 4.4 Retie
 * 5 external links

Also in the sixteenth-century handwriting Only hymns and hymns (Utrecht, 1582) is a Saints song (ODE) on St Maarten included. The text is from the hand of Radboud (Bishop of Utrecht, ca. 850-917), it counts 6 verses and the incipit is: ' Danny deer danckbaer sijn us/with waerden loff, sinte Martijn '. [1]

In the seventeenth century there appeared different St Martin's songs in print. The Songbook Parnassus, which is den bergh continue to be-der gheestelijcke Davids (Antwerp, 1623) contains a Saints song with the title ' Bishop ' and A Song beginning with the Halford Martinus vanden rules: ' Kinders lifts you want to begin the war ' And that Darius ooghen/my. Appoint different Saints songs poverty and generosity of St. Maarten. For example the song booklet with Flower-hof, Verciert geestelijcke praise-s of Albertus Buitendyck (Antwerp, 1659). The song begins with the lines ' Ey! volght in armoeden ',/Die his Martinum after. And also the Saints song in the song booklet Evangelical Laidlaw ofte history liedekens (Antwerp, 1682), that begins with "hear all that gierigh you miltheyt aerdt, 's/zyt Martinus sal learn '. [1] ===Children's songs, mendicant songs<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The oldest surviving nursery rhyme dates back to the beginning of the seventeenth century. In Den christelicken hvys-hovder (a Catholic instruction booklet with questions and answers) of Joannes David is the next song mentions:<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lezing_2-1" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]


 * Stoockt four, maeckt four:
 * Sinte Marten goes here
 * With syne at my arms
 * He gheerne him warm up time by the Sun?

<p lang="en" len="101" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The word fire (' four ') refers to the use to be on the feast day of Saint Martin to firing firing.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the nineteenth century there is interest for folk songs that have been passed down orally and are there dozens of St Martin's songs and variations recorded in manuscript collections and song books.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The oldest example in the Dutch song database is the magazine ''Wodana. Museum of Nederduitsche oudheidskunde'' (Ghent, 1843). The three recorded songs are: ' Sinte M. evening/the Tower forward Darius Ghent gaet '; ' The boys of the villages/who were here already byeen '; and ' By daeg is 't sinte Merten,/and tomorrow is 't the stool '. The magazine gives The Navorscher a few years later, in 1851, also three St Martin's songs: ' red, Red skirt/Sunte-Martens stick '; Emmanuel keugel hood/Sunder-Martens ' Chicken '; Tess Sunte-Marten, and '/The calf sunt so darts '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-meertens_1-3" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The oldest song booklets in which St Martin's songs in his recorded by not much later. The Songbook Niederländische Volkslieder (Horae Belgicae), collected by a. Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1856), mentions five songs, including: "Martijn! /maaneschijn ' in the murref in the turref; ' Live here ' n can give,/that rijkman veul '; ' Saint Maarten is zoo m'een turfjen or a cold,/give wood '; and ' a bag of bran,/a bag with Herb '. The song booklet Nederlandsche baker and children's rhymes, collected by j. van Vloten (melodies collected by [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMarius_Adrianus_Brandts_Buys_sr. M.A. Brandts Buys]) (born 1894), gives as many as 20 children's songs around the Saint Martin's day.Below the songs ' red, Red skirt/Sunte-Martens stick '; ' Sinte kalvers start The bear, Marten, Sinte/'; and ' Fuel four, make four,/Sinte Maarten comes here '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-meertens_1-4" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also the large manuscript collections of many songs and variations have collected around 1900. For example, the manuscript collection folk and children's songs by Nynke van Hichtum contains nearly 60 St Martin's songs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-meertens_1-5" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For example, the old guidance instruments for charm and the songs are foekepot ratchet. ==Contemporary songs<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Despite the great regional diversity than certain St Martin's songs throughout the language area. That does not mean that these songs are sung everywhere and always exactly the same. There are rules added and omitted and words can be chosen differently. As usual with folk songs, which are passed on orally, there may be large (regional) differences in text and melody.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A very general song is Saint Martin. The song mentions the Saint to whom the party is called or by name, otherwise the text no Catholic inspiration. The text seems to be composed on the basis of rhyme. The intention is that the song can be made for a very long time. On ... cows have cakes, pigs have ears ... can be further endless rhymed. However, nowadays often sung a shortened version, because time is candy:


 * Saint Martin, Sint Maarten
 * the cows have cakes
 * the girls have skirts to
 * In addition, Saint Maarten to.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also very general, often in addition to the well-known Saint Martin Sung, is the charm song. Saint Martin's day was originally a cave-ins against eest, that poor children the opportunity to amass some extras for next winter.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Advance the song Eleven november very General for, if it is not or hardly sung in Belgium. The satirical songs sometimes come a very large area, but some are too volatile. St Martin's songs are also subject to fashion. ===Mocking St Martin's Songs<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although the St. Martin feast in name a Catholic celebration is, are certainly in the North to name the songs hardly still Christian. On the contrary, the songs often have a parodying or satirical character. ===To a close door<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A private group are the songs, or loose rules, which are sung when the door resistance. For this "covetous" are sung offensive rules, which also differ by region. So one in the Mechelen area sings the following lines:


 * high home empty (liejg = low) private
 * There is a miserly pin in house

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the northern provinces and North Holland one hears lyrics that voortrijmen on kikkerbil. Some of these texts are even insulting. In North Holland is sung: Saint Martin the door is fixed, with fixed "close", "locked" means. In Drenthe, there is Saint Martin Baker. In Limburg we a close door also often sings the song:


 * Tiere, Vernon, Vernon
 * Mr woënt enne gajardo
 * Dih ôs geave, want nothing
 * Dih beleave IM 20, zâl.

<p lang="en" len="31" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Dutch this means:


 * Tiere, Vernon, Vernon
 * Here lives a Tightwad
 * Who wants to give us nothing,
 * He will have some experience.

===Sinte-Maarten Madhavi<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Other mocking parodying songs often have a slant. This is a variant on the 11 november-song about a dentist who drills Mag. On the well-known St Maarten exist all kinds of parodies. The variation is innocent, in some way even absurd:


 * Saint Martin, Saint Martin,
 * There were two tomatoes,
 * one has a hat on,
 * the other has a bald head.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the North are rhymes that rhyme on the nonsensicale madhavi very general. The humor in these songs, which invariably start with Sinte-Maarten Madhavi, is innocent and childlike. ==Netherlands<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===The northern provinces<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Especially Groningen has a very lively St Maarten tradition. Many of the songs are in the Groningen Groningen dialect. Typically, usually in Groningen from "Saint Martin" is sung:


 * Sunt Martin Bishop
 * MIT see roege hat on,
 * MIT laange SteveL to see,
 * DOAR comes Sunt Martin to.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Typical is the song Mien lutje Quercus antiekrestauratie. Also self is the song I staai veur million door. Also in Drenthe are songs sung in dialect. Both here and in Groningen are also rhymes on Denis k bullet for, that like the General madhavi are nonsensical.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Friesland, the St Maarten less widely celebrated. Songs in Frisian and Dutch songs in existence here often next to each other. ===Noord-Holland<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also in North Holland is the Festival still very topical. Originally it was there only in the areas above the IJ celebrated, but meanwhile the feast also known in Amsterdam and Haarlem. Typical of North Holland are the songs about animals. Saint Martin had a cow is also known outside North Holland. All kinds of variants occur, such as Saint Martin had a goat. These songs have a clearly parodying character. In the Netherlands as the "first" song was always Sung:


 * Maarten, Sintere, Sintere
 * The calves have tails,
 * The cows have horns,
 * The clocks have towers,
 * The towers have clocks,
 * Girls have skirts,
 * The boys have trousers,
 * Old women schorteledoeken,
 * Creeps in all over,
 * Saint Nicholas,
 * Do you know me not,
 * High on the clogs,
 * Low on the mules,
 * Saint John,
 * Saint John,
 * from the stuffed Peperkan,
 * Sintere Maarten is so cold,
 * Give me a turfie or a wood,
 * Then I can heat, me
 * With me bare arms,
 * Bare with me and bene,
 * Can I verdenen a tidy sum.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Here it turns out, as further reported, that it originally a charm song was for the poor from the community. The children of wealthy families did not sing. This was often noted by the "givers" and got that child the communication, in order to go but to his father.

<p lang="en" len="77" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">If an address was given, much was sung during or after the "gift":


 * Here lives a rich man,
 * Who can give a lot.
 * Long may he live,
 * Blessed he will die,
 * With a hundred thousand inherit.

<p lang="en" len="3" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Or:


 * Here lives a rich man,
 * Who can give a lot.
 * God will give him wages,
 * With one hundred thousand crowns,
 * With a hundred thousand lights,
 * Here comes to Saint Martin.

<p lang="en" len="3" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Or:


 * Here lives a rich man,
 * Who can give a lot,
 * Many may not care,
 * We will share everything,
 * Give an Apple or a PEAR,
 * (Then) come (' k) no longer throughout the year.

<p lang="en" len="3" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Or:


 * Here lives a rich man,
 * Who can give us something,
 * Much will he give,
 * Long may he live,
 * Blessed he will die,
 * The sky will recruit him,
 * God will give him wages,
 * With one hundred thousand crowns,
 * With a hundred thousand lights,
 * Here comes Sinte Maarten to.

<p lang="en" len="96" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">If there are aware nothing was given, then became a song sung with "here lives a kikkerbil" etc.

<p lang="en" len="309" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the zaanstreek is traditionally a chorus added to Saint Martin, though the less and less heard in recent years:


 * Hay-de-booi, hay-de-booi,
 * What is Sintre-Maarten beautiful.
 * Hay-de-booi, hay-de-booi,
 * What is Sintre-Maarten beautiful.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The village of Volendam has own St Martin's songs, in dialect. The song Sinte-Martes vegeltje used elsewhere for possible; in Limburg we hear variants (see below). ===Gelderland and Overijssel<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Both in Gelderland and Overijssel is Saint Martin celebrated here and there. In the Achterhoek, there is St Martin's own songs. Vrij General in this region is today is 't Sunte-Marten, in dialect. Also on the Veluwe are St Martin's songs in dialect. Probe probe marten is a variation on the well-known St Maarten. A song that was sung in Hattem is:


 * Sinte Marten keugeltien
 * See round with reugeltien
 * See round rökkien with an
 * Daor kumpt Sinte Marten an
 * Sinte Marten is so kold
 * Give'm a short fire or holt
 * Then he may where you
 * MIT see Arun daarmen
 * Here lives another rieke man
 * So can veule give
 * He will give Veule
 * Long he will live
 * Jaor EEDA day one hundred and
 * Then he is noar ebracht 't cemetery
 * On a farmer's cart
 * He is carried away.

===The southern provinces<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The songs that are sung in Brabant and Limburg areas often dissimilar to the songs that are sung above the rivers. Now comes the General Saint Martin also here for, in slightly different form (from North Brabant):


 * Sinte Maerte,
 * The several maps of ebbe staerte,
 * The in English l ebbe orens,
 * Daniella ebbe towers,
 * The pigs ebbe a stool in stêêrt,
 * Da'd is a penny wêêrt.
 * Sinter veugelke Mertens,
 * Haj and roej keugelke,
 * Haj and stertje, rauan
 * hoepsa sinter merten!

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Limburg wônt Sinter-Sasori's (Saint Martin lives Here) is also a variation on this song. Certain southern songs also appear occasionally in the North to occur. So does Sinter-Mertes veugelke from Venlo somewhat to the Volendam song thinking (see above). Gooj wife is sung, a typical charm song. ==Flanders<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===West-Flanders<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In both Western and Eastern Flanders Saint Martin's day often competes with Santa Claus. Certain villages celebrate so no Santa Claus, but called Saint Maarten. Some sung here St Martin's songs seem then also called on the old Sinterklaas songs (eg. Sinterklaas unrelated). Vrij General starred:


 * Saint Martin evening
 * the stars go to Ghent
 * and if our parent waffles bake
 * then we are der mee content
 * small four (fire) big four (fire)
 * Saint Maarten comes alier
 * with his best tabord an.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This song is often sung in dialect. From Westvleteren Sinte-Maortens aovend " is recorded. A striking feature of that variant is that there are several elements in the text are already recorded in the oldest St Martin's songs in the 16th century (see below).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The traditions differ from village to village in West Flanders and sometimes even from district to district. There are very different songs. In Koekelare sounds Ruus buus buus, obviously in dialect. Wervik, an example of a city where one area Saint Martin, the other celebrates Sinterklaas, has the following, short song:


 * Bolle Bolle Saint Martin
 * GIF mie ne soe's butts

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to its own dialect songs also come here though the General songs for. Whether or not under the influence of Catholic education, there are also longer songs explicitly about the Holy Saint Martin's go, but whether these songs in an older, oral tradition are is the question. ===East Flanders<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In East Flanders is the party especially in the region around Aalst celebrated, where as in parts of Western Flanders is more important than Santa Claus. From this area is the following short rhyme known:


 * Sinte Merten on ne stick
 * Who-e ni geiven, who-e ni geiven
 * Sinte Merten on ne stick
 * Who ni geiven, ropt on!

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Furthermore, the song Saint Martin will 't evening Sung. Also come here other, more general songs for.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Elsewhere in East-Flanders, Sint-Maarten celebrations, often in cities or villages with a St Martin's parish. From the waasland is the long today is 't Sinte-Maarten known, that somewhat resembles the ' Achterhoekse ' song (see above). ===The Mechelen Area<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Mechelen and the surrounding area is still very intensive celebrated Saint Martin. The songs vary from municipality to municipality and are consciously maintained by schools and the local Sinte Mette-Association.Although again the well-known Saint Martin Sung, enjoy a higher status the own songs. Indeed, the singing of Saint Martin, the cows have xs is seen as laziness, and the rewards can then often frugal fall out. The traditional songs are quite long, and in dialect.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Spoken in Mechelen sings the song Sinte-Mette of the ruggenuchte. In Hombeek is another variant heard, Sinte-Mette de nieve, a variant which is reminiscent of the Sung in Weerde Sinte-Mette den nufe. The children sing in Walem Sinte-Mette of the nine nuste.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to this song comes fairly common yet another song for, the long St Maarten rode through wind and weather. This song is special because it has a clear Catholic load yet. The story of the Holy Saint Martin briefly retold. ===Retie<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">St. Martin is the patron saint of Retie and that is celebrated. In the morning the children go from door to door and sing the Saint Martin song while they collect money and candy. Already weeks in advance are the inhabitants of the villages to collect wood to make the largest possible stake. After dark, the fires in the various districts and villages ignited. St Maarten does then round to hand out bulbs currants.

<p lang="en" len="67" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Sung by the children most and oldest version goes like this:


 * Today ist sinte mette
 * and merge ist the stool
 * We come good ones deer
 * because merging ist too busy
 * the farmers will go from here nie
 * or they hemmen what on done
 * hejt turfe or wa iejn
 * Sinte Mette Salix Lynda
 * I do remember a good woman
 * that would still give
 * lank may they live
 * hundred years and one day
 * as long as da brokskes in the pan they should
 * Re-enable wa wa Sara AA's picture page
 * until the last years they
 * We hemme Sung.
 * We hemme Nadeem GAIKWAD
 * Re-enable a piece of verkes hole
 * is da discover still nie doeëd
 * succeeds it against his achtersten poet
 * lieke is still nie da oit
 * gives a piece of verkes snoit
 * OIT oit oit