Feast Day Post

Let's go to the memory lane.

Batchmates from Dominican College San Juan since early elementary must be familiar about this song:

At the time of John Lackland, over England was the king
Dominic was in the backland fighting sin like anything.

Dominic oh Dominic! Over the land he plods along
And sings a little song
Never looking for reward, he just talks about the Lord
He just talks about the Lord.

that goes with this tune:


This song was the usual "package deal" of Amang Santo Domingo whenever we celebrate the Veritas Week. I still can remember how we were taught of this song (way back in Grade Four) by two nuns who got upset because of our noise. One of those nuns was Sr. Felicitas Toledo, who happened to be our Christian Living teacher and turned out to be one of my close friends in CRMSD. (anu na kayang nangyari dun? hehe)

I was reminded of the song because Father Rector (dela Rosa) mentioned of a song "Dominic" that topped the Billboard charts during the 1960s was composed by Jeanine Deckers, an ex-Dominican who became controversial because of her stand on contraception. This composer is said to have committed suicide in the 80s. She is known to the public as Soeur Soirire.

Curiosity led me to a little online research, and voila - sabi na nga ba. The song was originally in French (Dominique nique nique), although it was translated into English as how it was performed by Debbie Robinson in the old film The Singing Nun.

What happened to Jeanine Deckers was tragic. Read: http://learning2share.blogspot.com/2008/09/singing-nun-dominique-1982.html

Although this post is sad for a very happy day (walang pasok eh! hehe), let me greet all my fellows (dominicans, thomasians) a happy feast day.