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Thread #2483   Message #1269167
Posted By: Ron Davies
11-Sep-04 - 07:55 AM
Thread Name: Req: If You Want People to Like You, Learn German
Subject: RE: If you want people to like you, learn German
Sounds like a great song--any chance anybody can get the lyrics?


Also the Germans get a bad rap in the accusation they have no sense of humor. Schobert und Black, for instance, did a great Walter Mitty-type song called "Freddy the Gun", and somebody, Udo Juergens, I think, did "Der Jazz kommt aus Hamburg", complete with "When the Saints Go Marching In" excerpts auf Deutsch, among other song quotes. Holds its own with Tom Lehrer. If you speak a language, I think, you find out virtually everybody has a sense of humor.