Christmas in Germany: Poem


Figure 1.--Here we have a little German boy in front of Christmas decorations. I'm not sure why, but I find this a charming Christmas image. Perhaps it is becasuse he is so secure and confident. Notice the obviously hand knitted sweater. The portrait looks to have been taken in the early 1950s.

Here we have an interesting Christmas poem. A German reader writes, "Here is a funny Christmas song. It is a mixture of English and German words. When you read it as a German it sounds really funny. I had a good laugh! The lyrics are from a song title called "Merry Christmas allerseits". It was performed by the popular German singer Udo Jürgens (as I read on some homepages). But I don't know if he is the author." It is a charming song/poem and a good exercize for English speakers beginning to learn German and German speakers beginning to learn English. Unfortunately, we do do not know who the author is, but would be plaeased to add the attribution is anyone know.

When the snow falls wunderbar
And the children happy are,
When the Glatteis on the street,
And we all a Glühwein need,
Then you know, es ist soweit:
She is here, the Weihnachtszeit

Every Parkhaus ist besetzt,
Weil die people fahren jetzt
All to Kaufhof, Mediamarkt,
Kriegen nearly Herzinfarkt.
Shopping hirnverbrannte things
And the Christmasglocke rings.

Merry Christmas, merry Christmas,
Hear the music, see the lights,
Frohe Weihnacht, Frohe Weihnacht,
Merry Christmas allerseits...

Mother in the kitchen bakes
Schoko-, Nuss- and Mandelkeks
Daddy in the Nebenraum
Schmücks a Riesen-Weihnachtsbaum
He is hanging auf the balls,
Then he from the Leiter falls...

Finally the Kinderlein
To the Zimmer kommen rein
And es sings the family
Schauerlich: "Oh, Chistmastree!"
And the jeder in the house
Is packing die Geschenke aus.

Merry Christmas, merry Christmas,
Hear the music, see the lights,
Frohe Weihnacht, Frohe Weihnacht,
Merry Christmas allerseits...

Mama finds unter the Tanne
Eine brandnew Teflon-Pfanne,
Papa gets a Schlips and Socken,
Everybody does frohlocken.
President speaks in TV,
All around is Harmonie,

Bis mother in the kitchen runs:
Im Ofen burns the Weihnachtsgans.
And so comes die Feuerwehr
With Tatü, tata daher,
And they bring a long, long Schlauch
An a long, long Leiter auch.
And they schrei - "Wasser marsch!",
Christmas is now im ...

Merry Christmas, merry Christmas,
Hear the music, see the lights,
Frohe Weihnacht, Frohe Weihnacht,
Merry Christmas allerseits...







HBC





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Created: 5:54 AM 12/16/2004
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