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Thread #144218 Message #3957460
Posted By: keberoxu
19-Oct-18 - 06:11 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song
Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song
In the interest of variations on this song,
I'm going to summarize the lyrics on the version I learned.
Not spell them out, as in earlier posts here;
just supply those few words, per verse, which change each time;
the rest is presumed.
THE VERSION FROM THE CATHOLIC RETREAT
Papa Shark! (four times, with scatting)
Mama Shark!
Baby Shark!
Grandpa Shark!
... I forget !... something about Swimming!
Saw A Shark!
Swimming Faster!
Shark Attack!
Lost My Arm!
Lost My Leg!
Lost My Head!
Now, I'm dead!
Gone To Heaven!
(well, what do you expect, from a Catholic parish ...)
As to the German Kleiner Hai, it actually ends with
Alexandra Müller wagging her pointing finger
at the shark that just finished "fressen", stuffing itself,
and chanting :
Böser Hai! dimm dimm dimmdimm dimmdimm
Böser Hai! dimm dimm dimmdimm dimmdimm
Böser Hai! dimm dimm dimmdimm dimmdimm
Böser Hai!
Which I understand to mean:
Naughty Shark!!
Naughty, Naughty Shark!