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mrere

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  1. I hope this is the correct place to post this question. Christmas is over, but this holiday season I have been trying to figure out what the lyrics to "Pax Um Biscum (Peace Be With You), the last song on Ringo Starr's Christmas album are. Most lyrics pages give a very incomplete transcription, and I don't believe there is an official transcription on any copy of the album. I have done a bunch of searching and listening to the song and I think I now am on the right track. All the lyrics are "Peace be with you" in different languages. The question is, which language? I have figured out a couple, and I will keep trying to figure out the rest, but I am no expert in any language other than English, so I thought I could task the help of some people who are experts. Here is a like to the song on YouTube, as well as a list of the languages figured out. I think there is 10 different languages, and the list below lists them in order of appearance in the song, not counting the phrases that are said more than once https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDdgg5OKQzc&ab_channel=RingoStarr-Topic 1. Latin: "Pax um biscum" (possibly a corruption of "Pax vobisum") 2. 3. French: "Que la paix soit avec toi" 4. 5. Spanish: "La paz sea con vosotros" 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. English "Peace be with you"
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