I used to quite like this song when it came out...

[Filliam H. Muffman]

eustacetilley wrote:
"Domenique" and "It's A Small World" are two examples of songs that originated out of a deep inner hatred of all mankind.
There is a third...

When I was growing up, all the neighborhood girls took up a song so nauseatingly repulsive, that entire local species went extinct. (Most of the males killed themselves.)
The original lyrics went:

Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann
Und mir steckt's auch im Blut
D'rum wand're ich froh so lang ich kann
Und schwenke meinen Hut
Faleri falera faleri falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri falera
Und schwenke meinen Hut

This was the German Ultimate Weapon. It needed to be translated:

I love to go a-wandering,
Along the mountain track,
(To translate more is exceedingly dangerous...)

Every time one of those neighborhood she-hounds started to summon this up, I resisted the urge to fill a knapsack with rocks, bind her to it, and toss her off a cliff.
The ultimate insult was- _I_ was the only one with a knapsack. _I_ was the only one who went hiking in the hills. _I_ was the only one who saw a cow explode. (Also, _I_ was the one who collected fossils large enough to be mistaken for rocks.)
And _they_ knew it.

Eustace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-VAG4EI0hE&t=27

[eustacetilley]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
[quote=eustacetilley]
"Domenique" and "It's A Small World" are two examples of songs that originated out of a deep inner hatred of all mankind.
There is a third...

When I was growing up, all the neighborhood girls took up a song so nauseatingly repulsive, that entire local species went extinct. (Most of the males killed themselves.)
The original lyrics went:

Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann
Und mir steckt's auch im Blut
D'rum wand're ich froh so lang ich kann
Und schwenke meinen Hut
Faleri falera faleri falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri falera
Und schwenke meinen Hut

This was the German Ultimate Weapon. It needed to be translated:

I love to go a-wandering,
Along the mountain track,
(To translate more is exceedingly dangerous...)

Every time one of those neighborhood she-hounds started to summon this up, I resisted the urge to fill a knapsack with rocks, bind her to it, and toss her off a cliff.
The ultimate insult was- _I_ was the only one with a knapsack. _I_ was the only one who went hiking in the hills. _I_ was the only one who saw a cow explode. (Also, _I_ was the one who collected fossils large enough to be mistaken for rocks.)
And _they_ knew it.

Eustace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-VAG4EI0hE&t=27
Ha! All that they were missing was Father Ted...
Thanks.
Now, since I never miss putting my foot in the opening of a door...
The original, and probably most famous English rendition was by the Obernkirchen Children's Choir. All that I can attribute this to is some really Bad Influences, (They were all War Orphans.), for a few years later they came out with their sublime Christmas Songs album, very much worth seeking out.



(For the lyrics that we couldn't quite make out, we made up.)

Eustace

[Octave Doctor]

I checked out the YouTube video--made it to 53 seconds.