I knew someone would come up with it! Also, Dinty, please don't take my remarks too seriously. I'm sure the song has its place. It certainly is a good tune to sing in enthusiastic company, and the words don't matter that much. It is just when a commercial recording of something like this reaches the top of the German hit parade that I'm beginning to lose faith in my countrymen's (and -women's) good sense. The song depicts North Germans in the way 'stage Irish' songs used to depict Irishmen as dumb and drunk, and Sir Harry Lauder and his imitators used to depict the Scots in similar stereotypes. As a North German and speaker of the ancient language of the country, Plattdeutsch, I resent this cheapening approach and I don't understand how Germans can accept this kind of thing. It's different for foreigners, and I certainly wouldn't show you the door for singing it!

MudGuard, my abject apologies for unintentionally offending Laurel and Hardy. I was merely thinking of the shapes, not of any comic genius in Klaus&Klaus! - Susanne