A co-worker set this to me. It's cute. An understanding of German helps.
Ein kleines Weihnachtsgedicht (A small Christmas Poem)
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.
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.
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 Weihnachtsgans.
And so comes die Feuerwehr
With Tatü, tata daher,
And they bring a long, long Schlauch
An a long, long Leiter auch.
And they schrei - "Wasser marsch!",
Christmas is - now im - A....
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas,
Hear the music, see the lights,
Frohe Weihnacht, Frohe Weihnacht,
Merry Christmas allerseits...
I spent a decade with a German girlfriend and that poem basically sums up how we spoke to one another.
Posted by: neil at December 9, 2004 07:33 PMThat was freaky. For a second I thought the whole thing was in German and I was a genois...geniees...guenis...smart guy....
Posted by: Dave at December 9, 2004 11:38 PMA new Teflon-Pfanne? Sweet! We've scratched the heck out of our old one.
Posted by: Shelby at December 10, 2004 01:05 AMlovely :)
Posted by: Tobias at December 14, 2004 02:29 AM