G'day all (and that slave-driver, Joe Offer),This song was requested in another thread and I start this thread to make sure it is aimed at the Holy Grail ... sorry, I mean the DT!
Here are the words, as I have them: THE GERMAN GIRLS
from Coxon's Comic Songster (~1858)
Tune: Samuel lover's The Low-Backed Car
I once fell in love, sir, in a true colonial way,
With a German girl who played and sang in the 'Union' Bar all day;
I'd just arrived, was green as grass, not badly off for tin,
So this German girl first drew me out, and afterwards took me in,
As she sat in the Union Bar, and played on an old crack'd guitar,
I soon, 'pon my soul made a very large hole
In my cash at the Union Bar.
And with her in that Bar, sir, with an old guitar apiece,
Were two younger girls (her sisters) the 'fast young men' to fleece;
And when a song was finished, they'd not a minute wait,
But make those spoons 'fork out' their tin, by sending round the plate,
And my fair one who played the guitar (the best of the whole three by far)
Smiled quite fondly on me as I'd shout for the three
In that confounded flash Yankee Bar.
I shepherded that girl, sir, and soon got in such a flame,
That I fancied every young fellow there was going to jump my claim;
The prospect too I liked so well that it made my heart quite flutter,
And think I was on, not in a line, and dead upon the gutter;
And I sat in that Union Bar, and watched my love play her guitar;
I considered it great to go round with the plate,
For the lady who played the guitar.
One day I sought that Bar, sir, to have my usual chat,
But no German girls were there, sir, they'd gone to Ballarat –
I shouted for the barman, got tipsy, pain to quell,
Asked him if he knew where they'd stop, he said he couldn't tell,
But thought if it wasn't too far to go up myself by Cobb's car,
I should be bound to see the whole of the three
Of them playing in some Yankee bar.
Though cash was getting low, sir, I went straight and paid my fair,
Off started the next morning and arrived in safety here.
Commenced my search, spent all my tin, got very drunk as well,
But late at night I bowl'd them out, in the Bar of Bath's Hotel.
And when once more I heard that guitar, by sheer joy I was carried so far
That my cash being run out, I stuck up a shout
For the whole crowd in the front of the bar.
Young men 'list to the sequel, and warning take in time,
Don't get sweet on German girls like those who are in my rhyme,
For when I'd no more cash to spend, and drop into the plate,
She said I was a shicer, and got another mate;
And now when we meet in a bar, (she still sings and plays the guitar)
She'll wink at her mate, who'll come round with the plate
For the lady who plays the guitar.
Dead on the gutter: Mining term = sure to find (gold) Shicer: Mining term = useless / dead loss (German = scheisse)^^
This is the MIDIText file of the tune, once through, in the key of 'F':
MIDI file: german-g.mid
Timebase: 240
TimeSig: 6/8 36 8
Tempo: 180 (333333 microsec/crotchet)
Start
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EndThis program is worth the effort of learning it.
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ABC format:
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Q:1/4=180
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Regards,
Bob Bolton
Messages from multiple threads combined.
-Joe Offer, October 2002-