Bel Ami (song)
The hit Bel Ami with the text by Hans Fritz Beckmann based on the melody by Theo Mackeben , more precisely you are lucky with the women, Bel Ami! , sung for the first time in 1939 by Lizzi Waldmüller in the Willi Forst film Bel Ami , gained great popularity in the German Reich, which is remarkable in view of its “un heroic ” refrain . A short time later a version was released by the record company Odeon in which Willi Forst sang himself.
text
A little song goes from mouth to mouth.
It is popular, and there is a reason,
because it sings of the darling of many ladies who
fell out of the ordinary for his sake.
God Amor himself composed
it
and dedicated it to beautiful women, and because it sounds adorable and sweet, people
sing all over Paris:
- (Refrain)
- You're lucky with women, Bel Ami!
So much luck with the women, Bel Ami! You're
not beautiful, but charming,
you're not clever, but very gallant,
you're not a hero,
just a man who pleases.
You fall in love anew every day, you
kiss everyone and nobody stays true.
But you
make the woman who loves you happier than ever,
Bel Ami! Bel Ami! Bel Ami!
- (Second stanza)
I know a nice young man
who is nothing and cannot do anything special,
and whom the ladies still adore
because he has what all women want.
He makes the other men very nervous
with his great Chronique Scandaleuse.
He takes women as he wants,
with him everyone keeps quiet.
- (Refrain)
Boney M .: Bel Ami
There is also a song of the same name by Boney M , which only has the title in common with the hit mentioned here.