The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88825   Message #1714247
Posted By: harpmolly
10-Apr-06 - 01:43 AM
Thread Name: Fun With Mangled Lyrics
Subject: RE: Fun With Mangled Lyrics
It was in the month soft July,
Before the sun in the sky is not;
Downwards between two installations of rye
I heard the liked leisures with two.
It did not say so any more
"of the girls, girls, than I do not have and with you to leave can me remains;
But I have to say a word or to two,
if you have an understanding for too teeriges.
You, your father applies large Obacht,
and your mother also combs to the bottom your yellow hair;
And your sisters two say that you do not receive a share,
if you follow me, loves, a foreigner;
And the girl, girls, your fortune is however small,
and perhaps it is right that you do not have absolutely any of it;
And I am not same, loves, for you with all;
give thus your love zu.anderen others."
"OH -, my father can opposes it
and my mother can the eyebrows wrinkle,
and my sisters, two that I exproprie;
And if they had died below the ground and,
I would follow you calmly, loves;
They are not a foreigner!
But the courage of this girl collected to be removed above,
and its cheeks rosigen raised soon wan and of the plates;
And the tears came, troepfelnd like greeting to the bottom
or a heavy shower the summer.
And its rag of collar of Leinens is taken to him thus finely,
and his lips are embraced to him,
and him it is dried eyes;
to say, "no more love cries, because you are meins,
and very that I said, should test you."

(I particularly like "I would follow you calmly, loves..." the original line being "I'd still follow you, love, you're no stranger." Nice example of appropriate mistranslation. ;)

M