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Oh my dearest Augustine
Augustine, Augustine
Oh my dearest Augustine
Everything's gone
Wealth is gone, health is gone
All is gone, Augustine!
Oh, my dearest Augustine
Everything's gone!
Blouses gone, houses gone
How do we carry on?
Oh my dearest Augustine
Everything's gone!
Even our great Wien*
Dead now like Augustine
Oh my dearest Augustine
Everything's gone!
Once we had great zest!
Now all we have is pest!
All is but a corpses' fest
Everything's gone!
Oh my dearest Augustine
Stay in the grave!
Oh my dearest Augustine
Everything's gone!
Augustine, Augustine
Oh my dearest Augustine
Everything's gone
Wealth is gone, health is gone
All is gone, Augustine!
Oh, my dearest Augustine
Everything's gone!
Blouses gone, houses gone
How do we carry on?
Oh my dearest Augustine
Everything's gone!
Even our great Wien*
Dead now like Augustine
Oh my dearest Augustine
Everything's gone!
Once we had great zest!
Now all we have is pest!
All is but a corpses' fest
Everything's gone!
Oh my dearest Augustine
Stay in the grave!
Oh my dearest Augustine
Everything's gone!
*German for "Vienna" - pronounced "Veen"
Yes, I thought I would translate one of those German songs everyone's heard of, but no one really "knows". As the lyrics may suggest, this song is a little dark. To give you some back ground information, I'll quote from Wikipedia:
At this time Vienna was struck by the bubonic plague and Augustin was a ballad singer and bagpiper, who toured Vienna‘s inns entertaining people. The Viennese loved Augustin because of his charming humour in bitter times and they called him "Lieber Augustin" (Dear Augustin). Once he was drunk and on his way home he fell in the gutter and went to sleep. He was mistaken for a dead man by the gravediggers patrolling the city for dead bodies. They picked him up and dumped him, along with his bagpipes which they presumed were infected, into a pit filled with bodies of plague victims outside the city walls. Next day when Augustin woke up, he was unable to get out of the deep mass grave. He was shocked and after a while he started to play his bag pipes, because he wanted to die the same way he lived. Finally people heard him and he was rescued from this dreadful place. Luckily he remained healthy despite having slept with the infected dead bodies and Augustin became a symbol of hope for Viennese people.
Funny how it seems that the songs with the most disturbing lyrics behind them end up becoming kid songs, right? (Like Ring Around the Rosie).
Yes, I thought I would translate one of those German songs everyone's heard of, but no one really "knows". As the lyrics may suggest, this song is a little dark. To give you some back ground information, I'll quote from Wikipedia:
At this time Vienna was struck by the bubonic plague and Augustin was a ballad singer and bagpiper, who toured Vienna‘s inns entertaining people. The Viennese loved Augustin because of his charming humour in bitter times and they called him "Lieber Augustin" (Dear Augustin). Once he was drunk and on his way home he fell in the gutter and went to sleep. He was mistaken for a dead man by the gravediggers patrolling the city for dead bodies. They picked him up and dumped him, along with his bagpipes which they presumed were infected, into a pit filled with bodies of plague victims outside the city walls. Next day when Augustin woke up, he was unable to get out of the deep mass grave. He was shocked and after a while he started to play his bag pipes, because he wanted to die the same way he lived. Finally people heard him and he was rescued from this dreadful place. Luckily he remained healthy despite having slept with the infected dead bodies and Augustin became a symbol of hope for Viennese people.
Funny how it seems that the songs with the most disturbing lyrics behind them end up becoming kid songs, right? (Like Ring Around the Rosie).
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I vividly remember singing this song in our grade school music classes and recitals, and we all loved it. The teacher would tell us to quit screaming the lyrics so loudly because we were a bit over-enthusiastic^^