Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Fun with German

At the Christmas coffee time at the church this funny poem was read. It is a mixture of German and English. I thought some people might get a kick out of it. Those of you who know some German will really enjoy it.

Merry Christmas!

Ein englisches Weihnachtsgedicht

Welche Sprache sprechen die Engel? Englisch natürlich, ist doch klar! Und das ist gar nicht so schwer zu verstehen...

When the snow falls wunderbar,
and the children happy are,
when the Glatteis on the street,
and we all a Glühwein need,
then you know, es ist soweit:
she is here, the Weihnachtszeit.

Every Parkhaus ist besetzt,
Weil die people fahren jetzt
all to Kaufhof, Mediamarkt,
kriegen nearly Herzinfarkt.
shopping hirnverbrannte things,
and the Christmasglocke rings.

Merry Christmas, merry Christ-
mas, hear the music,
see the lights, frohe Weihnacht,
frohe Weihnacht,
merry Christmas allerseits...

Mother in the kitchen bakes
Schoko-, Nuss- and Mandelkeks,
Daddy in the Nebenraum
schmücks a Riesen-
Weihnachtsbaum,
he is hanging auf the balls,
then he from the Leiter falls...

Finally the Kinderlein
to the Zimmer kommen rein,
and es sings the family
schauerlich: "Oh, Christmastree!"
And the jeder in the house
is packing die Geschenke aus.

Merry Christmas, merry Christ-
mas, hear the music,
see the lights, frohe Weihnacht,
frohe Weihnacht,
merry Christmas allerseits...

Mama finds unter the Tanne
eine brandnew Teflon-Pfanne,
Papa gets a Schlips and Socken,
everybody does frohlocken.
President speaks in TV,
all around is Harmonie,

Bis mother in the kitchen runs:
Im Ofen burns the Weihnachts-
gans. And so comes die
Feuerwehr with tatü, tata daher,
and they bring a long, long
Schlauch and a long, long
Leiter auch. And they schrei:
"Wasser marsch!"

Christmasbaum is now im...

Merry Christmas, merry Christ-
mas, hear the music,
see the lights, frohe Weihnacht,
frohe Weihnacht,
merry Christmas allerseits...

3 comments:

thegermanygirl said...

Oh, I'm glad you posted this, April! Alex gave me a copy of it, but I've lost it somewhere. I have plans for this poem, thinking ahead to this year's Christmas.....hoping to start some new traditions in OKC......we'll see. ;o)

Anonymous said...

Boy that's funny.....it also gave me a headache switching back and forth so much!! :)

April said...

Court,
I'm glad I could help you out on that. Good luck on your new OKC Christmas traditions! I hope that is fun!

Bri,
Yeah, it is a bit crazy going back and forth isn't it?!