Most Americans are stunned to learn that among the most popular songs sung by raucous rooms full of drunken Germans mispronouncing the letters "S," "W," "G" and everyone's favorite consonant diagraph, "th" are:
KUNTRY ROADSS by Chon Tenfah
This is the most popular song in the entire country. Seriously.
Kuntry roadss..../
Take me humm...../
Too zuh plass..../
Vay I bilUNG.../
VEST FUH-chin-YA.../
Mownteen maMA (and baby, you ain't lived till you've heard a room full of drunk Germans hit the phrase, 'Mountain mama')
Take me humm..../
Kuntry roadss....
[90% sit down at this point while the brave 2% of the remainder stand, wave their liter-sized beer-mugs back and forth Mitch Miller style and sing:
oh mah meamriees/
gezzer rowna/
mamas lady/
rancha two za water...../
[sip sip gulp aaaahhh]
izzy hasty MOONSHINE tierpark in mine eyes....
[And everyone suddenly stands and shouts]
Kuntry roadss..../
Take me humm...../
Too zuh plass..../
Vay I bilUNG.../
VEST FUH-chin-YA.../
Mownteen maMA
Take me humm..../
Kuntry roadss....
[repeat]
Other German classic beer hall songs:
Sweet Caroline
SVEET KAROLINE..
HO HO HO
(come to think of it, this doesn't sound much worse than the average Fenway Park rendition)
And, inexplicably...
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
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Two new additions:
ReplyDeleteSveet Home ahlabahmah
Alice. Alice. Hoo za fuck iss Alice?
There are some other funny ones.
ReplyDeleteIncluding the one about the 'dead fish in the river/let's kill it'.
You walk into a wine tent and hear them singing this and think what a bunch or imbeciles. The lyrics really are inane.
After a few quarter carafes of wine, you're singing along as if that dead fish really needs to be sorted.