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Thread #20822   Message #218922
Posted By: Wolfgang
27-Apr-00 - 11:42 AM
Thread Name: songs about names
Subject: RE: songs about names
Especially in the late 1920s, it was a fashion in Germany to construct songs around names (pref. female), to use these names for rhymes and even repeat them in the song with another meaning. One example shows the idea of these usually silly songs:

Denn wer bei Ruth ruht,
der wirklich gut ruht,
weil Ruth ihm gut tut...
(Ruth and ruht are homophones)

Wolfgang