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My father found comfort in this song, which my grandfather taught him during the “Emsieldung” time and which he wanted to sing with his father over and over again …
It´s about missing home, the place one is from … from the point of view of someone who emigrated to the United States and misses his home in Luxembourg …
Not only does the text fit the situation of being away from home of the people during the “Emsiedlung”, I also find it interesting that my father later became interested in the United States, spending a year there as an exchange high school student and later studying American literature …