"What Have They Done to My Song Ma" is a song written and performed by #MelanieSafka. It was released in 1970 as the B-side of Melanie's "#RubyTuesday" single and included on the album #CandlesInTheRain. The single reached No.39 in the United Kingdom and peaked within the top 20 in Norway and the #Wallonia region of Belgium. Other artists have recorded it as "Look What They've Done to My Song Ma", after the song's first line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44Ach4mXE4
MELANIE Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma ('71)

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Here is a graph, summarizing my amazing weekend. The legal threshold in Belgium (Walloon Region) is 40 dB(A) at night and 50 dB(A) during the day. Not a single moment of respite, calm or serenity. We no longer know what to do. It is driving us crazy.

The building to which these machines are attached is empty from 5 pm to 8 am, and at weekends. Yet the machines continue to run throughout the night, despite the absence of any occupants, exposing nearby residents to continuous noise well above the legal limits.

#nightmare #NoisePollution #PublicHealth #Wallonia #QualityOfLife

View of the medieval castle of Bouillon from the Semois river.
Bouillon, Belgium 01/2026.
#Wallonia #Belgium #MedievalCastle #Castle #History #Heritage #Nature #Landscape #River #OldStone