Mother, the man with the coke is here
Mother, the man with the coke is there, is the title of a Berlin street seller from the late 19th century, when coal merchants still supplied stove-heated households individually for cash. The melody was taken from the "Carlotta Waltz" Marrying, Marrying, which is nicely taken from the operetta Gasparone (1884) by Carl Millöcker . The hit was so popular that it was even translated into Pennäler Latin from this period ( Mater, vir cum coces adest ).
In 1996, a song based on the kitchen song was published by the Austrian musician Falco, also under the title Mutter, der Mann mit dem Koks ist da , which only has the lyrics of the refrain in common with the kitchen song .
Lyrics of the song
Mother, the man with the coke is here.
Boy, shut up, I know yeah
Do I have any money? Do you have any money?
Who ordered the man with the coke?
Oh dear Koksmann, I have no moss!
But Madameken, it only costs
half a mark.
They don't have that
little quark
,
I think that's strong.
Do they not borrow?
No, borrowing worries.
I can't
borrow , I don't,
I don't want to,
borrowing is terrible to me.
Other version:
Mother, the man with the coke is there,
boy, shut up, I know it.
Do you have Jeld? I have no Jeld.
Who ordered the man with the coke?
Further version:
Mother, the man with the coke is there.
Be quiet, you know.
Haste keen Jeld? Nah, I haven't got any Jeld.
Who ordered the man with the coke?
literature
- Lukas Richter (ed.): Mother, the man with the coke is here. Berlin hit songs - with notes. VEB German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1977
- Lukas Richter: The Berlin hit song. Presentation, documents, collection. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1969 (plus habilitation thesis). New edition: Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1350-8 , pp. 389–391 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Mother, the man with the coke is there on youtube. Interpreter Ilse Trautschold .