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Help: don't get your 'tail' caught in the doo

16 Sep 00 - 06:37 PM (#298870)
Subject: don't get your 'tail' caught in the door
From: GUEST,count3

Has anyone heard of a German language opera/folk song about "a little mouse getting its tail caught in the door"?

People I know recently attended a small German concert (<100?), where an American women sang a song about "a little mouse worrying about getting its tail caught the door," in German. The Germans present were both horrified and amused.

Later these people I know were told that this song was both "most obscene and anti-Semitic."

Would anyone know of this song [opera or folk] and have a copy of the lyrics - to be used to inform this woman of her faux pas?


17 Sep 00 - 12:12 AM (#299066)
Subject: RE: Help: don't get your 'tail' caught in the doo
From: Art Thieme

Yes, the mouse dies as a result of it's injuries and the ghost of the rodent haunts the folks who own the house. They take the ghost to the liquor store---because that's where they retail spirits.

And, no, it isn't antisemitic at all. But it is antisemantic and asks Max to please delete these stupid threads obviously started by a deranged mixer.

Art