This gave me flashbacks to my childhood, and Dr. Seuss' famous 'Tweedle Beetle Battle' segment of 'Fox in Socks'. I loved that book as a kid, and still do.
In a small village there lived a woman with the name Barbara.
Barbara was well known for her wonderful rhubarb cake.
So people called her Rhubarb-Barbara.
Rhubarb-Barbara quickly realized that she could earn some money with her cake.
So she opened a bar, the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar.
The Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar was successful and soon she had regular customers.
And the three most well known of her customers, three barbarians, came so often to the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar to eat Rhubarb-Barbara's rhubarb cake that they became known as the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarians.
The Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarians had beautiful beards.
And if the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarians wanted to groom their Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beards they went to a barber.
And the only barber skilled enough to work on the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beards was called the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber.
The Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber also enjoyed going to the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar to eat some of Rhubarb-Barbara's delicious rhubarb cake and enjoy a beer which he proclaimed would be called the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer.
The Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer could only be purchased at one specific bar.
And the seller of the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer under the sign for the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer-Bar is called Barbel.
And so the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarians together with the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber and Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer-Bar-Barbel went together to the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar to have piece of Rhubarb-Barbara's delicious rhubarb cake and to raise a glass of ice cold Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer.
It's the German version of the "Buffalo Buffalo.."
ReplyDeleteMy name is Barbara, and I studied German. This is a riot!
ReplyDeleteThis gave me flashbacks to my childhood, and Dr. Seuss' famous 'Tweedle Beetle Battle' segment of 'Fox in Socks'. I loved that book as a kid, and still do.
ReplyDeleteMy translation on this other copy of the video seems to be popular based on the upvotes that still trickle in periodically.
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In a small village there lived a woman with the name Barbara.
Barbara was well known for her wonderful rhubarb cake.
So people called her Rhubarb-Barbara.
Rhubarb-Barbara quickly realized that she could earn some money with her cake.
So she opened a bar, the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar.
The Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar was successful and soon she had regular customers.
And the three most well known of her customers, three barbarians, came so often to the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar to eat Rhubarb-Barbara's rhubarb cake that they became known as the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarians.
The Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarians had beautiful beards.
And if the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarians wanted to groom their Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beards they went to a barber.
And the only barber skilled enough to work on the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beards was called the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber.
The Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber also enjoyed going to the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar to eat some of Rhubarb-Barbara's delicious rhubarb cake and enjoy a beer which he proclaimed would be called the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer.
The Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer could only be purchased at one specific bar.
And the seller of the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer under the sign for the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer-Bar is called Barbel.
And so the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarians together with the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber and Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer-Bar-Barbel went together to the Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar to have piece of Rhubarb-Barbara's delicious rhubarb cake and to raise a glass of ice cold Rhubarb-Barbara-Bar-Barbarian-Beard-Barber-Beer.
Cheers!