Gott in Himmel!
Since reading thro the German Marches thread I stumbled across this site of Ango?/German? poetry when searching for something completely different.
I thought it might interest those of you who are interested in dialects such as in the previous Scots dialect posts ...... a humerous Teutonic/American equivilent.
A quote from the introduction....,
"HANS BREITMANN GIFE A BARTY" - the first of the poems here submitted to the English speaking public - appeared originally in 1857, in Graham's Magazine, in Philadelphia, and soon became widely known. Few American poems, indeed, have been held in better or more constant remembrance than the ballad of "Hans Breitmann's Barty;" for the words just quoted have actually passed into a proverbial expression. Click here for the Hans Breitmann site