My Austrian Grossmutti used to sing a simple song that began:

Zwei schwarz-braune Ochsen
Und a Tschechische Kuh,
Das gibt mir mein Vater
Wenn ich heirate tu.

Ho la diri a, ho la di o
Ho la diri a, ho la di o

[Tr: Two black-brown bullocks and a Czech cow,
That's what my father will give me if I marry you.]

ABC:

X:1
T:Zwei schwarz-braune Ochsen
K:C
M:3/4
L:1/4
G | c c c | e c G/G/ | c B c | d2 G |
d d e | f d G/G/ | B A B | c2 z |
c c>d | e2 c | c B>c | d2 z |
d d>e | f2 d | B A>b | c2 ||

It supposedly had many more verses, but they were "too dirty" to sing in front of us kids. My mother heard her mother and other relatives sing them, but as she never learned German, all she could understand was the laughing afterwards.

Anyone familiar with this song, and have other verses?

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