Children's song: morian as black as soot

Jamjellie

@jamjellie1689649665 · 18 Feb 2019

Children's song: morian as black as soot

A morian, black as soot.
Went once wall'len without a hat;
The sun, it shone him upon his orb
That's why he took a parasol.
The story further tells that the dark Moorish boy is then bullied by three white boys for his dark skin. Grote Klaas appeals to them about this and asks them not to mock with skin color. After they don't listen, he gets angry and puts all three of them in a big ink jar, making them even blacker than the dark-colored boy.

The moral of the story is expressed in the Dutch translation at the end as follows:

So, dear children! do not mock anyway
If thou seest anything strange about and'ren

Do you remember? -EBB #magditnog