Shit (song)

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The shit song is a German youth song that has been documented since the 1970s. Rhymes with the word shit were used by Waldemar Dyhrenfurth for the nonsense poems about the character Bonifazius Kiesewetter even before the turn of the century in the imperial era . Further rhymes of this kind were invented until the post-war period . In 1972 Peter Rühmkorf provided templates for the text of the shit song with variations on shit . The text of the song is mentioned in 2009 in the book Das Ding im Atlas by Micha Rau .

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The song consists of a multitude of rhyming two-line lines that revolve around shit . It is typically sung by a group of young people , each contributing a single verse and singing the chorus together, and resembles the song The Monkeys Race Through the Forest . New stanzas often arise spontaneously. The structure looks like this.

Shit on the car roof,
e la di la di o.
Flattens out at 180,
e la di la di o.
E la di la di la di,
e la di la di o.
E la di la di la di,
e la di la di o.

Other well-known verses are "Shit on the top of the church tower, flies on the priest's hat" or "Shit in the car tire, gives brown stripes when braking", "Shit in the lampshell gives dim light in the hall", "Shit in the trumpet tube, comes to the Happiness rarely comes "as well as" Shit in the shopping bags, keeps the children from snacking "and" Shit shot through a sieve, gives the most beautiful freckles ".

Others

The song appears in the movie Die Vorstadtkrokodile from 1977. The suburban crocodiles sing the song in their tree house in the scene when the disabled Kurt visits them there for the first time.

The song is similar to a song by the Dolly Dots ("If you ever get to Trinidad Hela-di-ladi-lo ---")

literature

Web links

Wikibooks: Beginner's song for guitar students with over 50 stanzas (“shit” was replaced by “pudding”)  - learning and teaching materials

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Rühmkorf , Wolfgang Rasch: Works: The years you know. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1972, pp. 33/34.
  2. ^ A b Alan Dundes, Carl R. Pagter: Work Hard and You Shall be Rewarded. Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1978, ISBN 0-8143-2038-4 , pp. 24-27 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Micha Rau : The thing in the atlas. Baumhaus-Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8339-3708-8 , p. 134.
  4. ↑ a b Profil, Volume 25, 1994, p. 58
  5. ^ Helmut Fischer : Nursery rhymes in the Ruhr area. Rhymes, songs, game songs, puzzles, joke questions and jokes. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1114-1 , p. 121.
  6. ↑ Shit on volksliederarchiv.de ; accessed on September 11, 2019