The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88825   Message #1716560
Posted By: Genie
12-Apr-06 - 05:36 PM
Thread Name: Fun With Mangled Lyrics
Subject: RE: Fun With Mangled Lyrics - Home, Sweet Home!
Sorcha just posted the lyrics to this one for the DT, so I hadda go see how it would translate online.
This time I just went English->French->English, etc.
The meaning of the verses actually survived the translations relatively well, but the chorus wasn't so lucky.

To French and back:
SOFT HOUSE AT THE HOUSE
John Howard Payne,Henry R. Bishop

Among pleasures and palates although we can wander,
That it either always so humble, there is no place like the house!
A charm of the skies seems to sanctify us there,
What seek by the world, is the never met elsewhere.

At the house! At the house!
Candy, soft house!
There is no place like the house,
There is no place like the house!
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To German and back:

SWEET MAIN HOUSE
John Howard Payne,Henry R. Bishop

Chorus:
Head! Head!
Drop, sweet house!
There is no place such as house,
There is no place such as house!

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To Spanish and back:

Chorus:

To the house! To the house!
Caramel, smooth house!
There is no place like the house,
There is no place like the house!