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Thread #125820 Message #1059549
Posted By: DrWindy
23-Nov-03 - 05:41 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 12 Days of Christmas (WWII version-Blau)
Subject: RE: NewFolk 12 Days of Xmas
Found it! It was the Chad Mitchell Trio, not the Four Freshmen (senior moment!), but Google didn't turn up the lyric lines I searched. Found it by chance (serendip?) at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/gasarch/12/cmt.html
TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS by Chad Mitchell Trio. AVAILABLE from The Very Best of the Chad Mitchell Trio (Was also released on Vinyl
by Eric Blau
I tried to transcribe the words but I couldn'te understand alot of them, so I have XXX there. Also, some might be wrong.
THANKS to Gerry Myerson for help on some of the lines.
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And a partridge in a pear tree
Rudolph Hess's blessing
3 anti semites
4 Gestapo leaders
To hell with Adenauer
(He was German Chancellor in the 1960's)
we received from Israel, six guided missles
On the seventh day of Christmas the US send to me Seven more million dollars
On the eight day of Christmas my true love gave to me Telfunken H-bomb
(Telefunken was German Company that manufactored radios)
On the ninth day of Christmas we heard officially they hanged the wrong Eichman
On the tenth day of Christmas Iraq send us free 10 swastika scribblers
(NOTE-- some versions have `Long Island' instead of `Iraq')
On the llth day of Christmas we heard officially monicles are back
On the 12th day of Christmas they told us Germany he's still alive ?
Corrections: (trusting to my "senior" memory) ON the 12 day of Christmas they told all Germany: He ist still alife
on the 10th day, Iraq is Long Island
On the 8th day, there was a little patter that went: "Telefunken H-Bomb? What the 'ell is a telefunken H-Bomb? Well, it's like a Telefunken radio, but when you're trying to get London, your're trying to *get* London!"
On the 7th day, it is "The US send us, free: 7 more million dollars"
On the 5th day of Christmas, my true love said to me: "To hell..."
Kappy-happy Joy-joy! Now I can embarrass my childen and grandchildren at Thanksgiving dinner!