“Keiner plagt sich gerne, doch wir wissen:
Grau ist’s immer, wenn ein Morgen naht
Und trotz Hunger, Kält und Finternissen
Stehn zum Handanlegen wir parat.
Fort mit den Trümmern
Und was Neues hingebaut!
Um uns selber müssen wir uns selber kümmern
Und heraus gegen uns, wer sich traut!”

(B. Brecht in Aufbaulieder no.1)
Seraing (B)

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“Es lächelt der See, er ladet zum Bade,
Der Knabe schlief ein am grünen Gestade,
Da hört er ein Klingen,
Wie Flöten so süß,
Wie Stimmen der Engel
Im Paradies.”

(Fr. von Schiller in Fischerknabe)
Eupen (B)

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“Now, there’s a certain thing
That I learned from Jim
That he’d always make sure I’d understand
And that is that there’s a certain way
That a man must swim …”

(Bob Dylan in Open the door, Homer)
Liège (B)

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“When you’re feeling like expressing your affection
For someone night and day,
Take up the ‘phone and ask for your connection,
We’ll give it right away.
Eve or Adam, anyone you ask for
We’ll find somehow.”

(B. Britten in the song “When you’re feeling like expressing your affection”)
Grâce-Hollogne (B)

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