Artist: Miek & Roel
Author: Ferdinand A. Snellaert
Label: Vogue
Year: 1967
Plus Roland (Van Campenhout). Words & music Roel Van Bambost while the lyrics were more or less copied from #88 in F.A. Snellaert's songbook Oude En Nieuwe Liedjes (1852) entitled Van Het Smidje (XVIIth century).
Covers:
Laïs [as 't Smidje on their own melody (crediting Annelies Brosens/Jorunn Bouweraerts); their lyrics lean even closer to F.A. Snellaert's; became one of their biggest domestic hits and a surprise hit in Poland, where hordes of nuns go crazy on this tune (and on YouTube) named Taniec Belgijske (Belgian dance) for the occasion]
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