CITY OF LUCENA, Quezon, Historical Data of Part 4

tries to knock the can down. As soon as the can is knocked down, the prisoner must replace it before he can tag the player recovering his "pamato." The prisoner can tag the players while recovering his "pamato" within the throwing line only .

This game is played by two teams of about ten players each. Each team occupies a home which is seven meters from the home of the opposite team. One of the players of one team goes out of their home. A player of the opposite team will try to tag him, so he runs back to his home for refuge. The player who goes out of his home late has the right to tag. If the tagger catches him, he becomes a captive of the opposite team. The game goes on until one team catches all the players of the opposite team. This team wins the game.

This game is played by only two players. It is played on a "sungkahan" on a piece of board with fourteen small holes, seven on each side, and two big holes on both ends for each player's home. Each of the fourteen holes has seven stones or calumbibit in it. The two players start at the same time. Both get all the stones from one of the seven holes on his side and, going clockwise, drops on stone in every hole. Every time he passes his home, he drops one stone. He gets all the stones from the hole where he dropped his last stone and travels again clockwise dropping a stone in every hole except his opponent's home. If he drops his last stone in his home, he gets again all the stones from one of the seven holes on his side and travels clockwise

again. If he drops his last stone in an empty hole, he stops letting his opponent go on. If his opponent drops his last stone in an empty hole, the opponent stops and the first player has his turn again. This continues until almost all the stones are accumulated in the two homes. The player who has more stones in his home wins the game.

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Javellana Teachers

10. Until Tomorrow
11. Be My Love
12. When You Are in Love
13. Somebody Loves Me
14. I am Yours and You are Mine
15. Whispering Hope
16. Old Black Joe
17. Merry Widow Waltz
18. Across the Blue Lagoon
19. The Filipino Home (Tune - My Old Kentucky Home)
20. Pagan Love Song
21. Co-Co-Coconut
22. Old Soldiers Never Die

Soft as the voice of an angel
Greeting a lesson unheard
Wait for a gentle persuasion
Whisper a comforting word. Wait till the tempest is gone
Hope for the sunshine tomorrow
After the shower is gone

Oh how welcome thy voice
Making my heart, in its sorrow rejoice.

Gone are the days when my Gone are my friends from the Gone from the earth to better I hear this gentle voice I am coming, I am coming
For my head is bending low
I hear those gentle voices

Lovers often hum this soft Even after youth and laughter It recalls a night when hearts With the dawn that night Love remained.

My love, I'll wait for you Yet I know it will shine for two But the passing trade winds when they blow, An my heart's cry for you Turned pale to fade away Yet I feel your touch remain, Have grown darker as I wait alone Of your kiss lingers on

'Tis summer time in the Filipino home
'Tis harvest the birds sing with glee
The plains are brown and the flowers are in bloom
In the Filipino home, bright and free
The night is clear in the Filipino land,
A bright moon hangs above the hills
The hillsides thick with sparkling grains are grand.
There is music in the night air that thrills.

Let the night be bright In the Filipino home, bright and free.

My love and devotion will always be true
Now and forever, I'll live for you
My love and devotion are yours alone
Kiss me, beloved, say you're my own
I kiss your lips sweet and tender
They open heaven's door
Won't you surrender forever more
My love will grow deeper
As time passes by
Deep as the ocean
And high as the sky
My love and devotion
Are yours till I die.

We'll sing and dance this melody
Ciribiribi, oh what romance
With loving hearts in harmony
Ciribiribee, what ecstasy
To sing true life so merrily
Ciribiribee, Ciribiribee
Ciribiribee means love to me.

Come with me where moonbeams
Light Tahitian skies
And the starlet waters
Linger in your eyes
Nature hills are calling
To them we belong
And we'll cheer each other
With the pagan love son.

I went to your wedding
Although I was dreaming
The thought of losing you
The organ was playing
My poor heart kept saying
Your dreams, your dreams are true

You came down the aisle wearing a smile
A vision of loveliness
I utter a sigh, whispered goodbye
Goodbye to my happiness
Your mother was crying
Your father was crying
And I was crying, too
The teardrops are falling
Because we were losing you.

Co - co- coconut
As the skin is hard to cut
Take it, shake it, you can't break it
Co - co - coconut.

Co - co - coconut
As the skin is hard to cut
Take it, shake it, you can't break it
Co - co - coconut.

Coconuts grow on the treetops
You must climb way up to be top
Hurry tell your friends and neighbors
It is worth that extra labor
Coconut has plenty of meat
That is very good to eat
Also full of milk that's sweet
Coconut is hard to beat

Co - co - coconut
As the skin is hard to cut
Take it, shake it, you can't break it
Co - co - coconut.

Chorus:

On the 7^th of December
In the year '41

The free world met disaster
At the hands of the Rising Sun
From the bastion of Corregidor, In the sound of war and fury,
And the death march of free men.

Then from the land of way down under
A mighty voice would say
Our force is just, "In GOD we trust"
I will return someday
From Mindanao to Tarawa
Our battle song it grows
Until long Suribachi at last our glory flew.

From Ibo, Leyte, and a thousand isles
Our just cause in every son
Until one day he did return
And once more there was peace
And now somewhere there stands The world would laugh again
To him we say, "Well done!"

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Javellana Teachers

Historical Data of the City of Lucena, Province of Quezon, online at the National Library of the Philippines Digital Collections.