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Thread #60311   Message #965802
Posted By: Wolfgang
11-Jun-03 - 10:19 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Composer/Texter of God Save the Queen?
Subject: RE: Origins: Composer/Texter of God Save the Queen?
The number of ditties that are sung in Germany to that tune are countless. Here is one recent (in historical times) example from the GDR (very unPC then):

Das verdankt der Proletensohn,
Mutter Sowjetunion,
Da staunt die Bourgeoisie,
Sowas gab's noch nie.
Aus uns wird einmal nichts,
Aus uns wird zweimal nichts,
Aus uns wird 3mal nichts:
Dank der Partei.

(roughly) The son of the prolet has to be thankful
to mother Soviet Union
and the bourgeoisie is amazed
for such a thing had not be seen before:
We are no success once
we are no success twice
we are no success three times
thanks to the party.

In Southern Germany, this tune is used freely for carnival ditties.

Wolfgang