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sound: Eurovision Song Contest.mp3
This
next song is a cheap, oily and rather nasty attempt to cull the majority of
votes in the Eurovision Song
Contest by ingratiating ourselves with everybody:
Id like to spend a long weekend in PORTUGAL,
Although I love the NETHERLANDS as well.
And Ive always thought that NORWAY
Was simply heavens doorway,
When I'm not underneath the spell. of BEL GIUM.
Id simply die to up and fly to AUSTRIA
Or IRELAND, but below the ULSTER line.
Ive always spoken prettily
Of happy times in ITALY
And naturally FINLAND is divine.
You can always
find romance
Any time you are in FRANCE
And, of course, my favourite river is the RHINE
- Hallo, there GERMANY!
I've always thought MONACO
Was positively wacko
And YUGOSLAVIA is a friend of mine.
You can do some fancy feedin
In SWITZERLAND and SWEDEN
And in SPAIN they make a lot of lovely wine.
Yes, and as for dear old LUXEMBOURG
We can always do without one vote, cant we?
Wherever you may tour,
You can always be quite sure,
Be it ever so harmful,
There's no place like EUROPE.
oily:
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φlig, schmierig
to cull:
.....
(here) = to get
auch: pflόcken
to ingratiate oneself with:
.....................................................................
sich einschmeicheln bei
spell:
....
..
Zauber
to up (informal) = to rouse oneself, to get up, to jump up
divine:
....
gφttlich
wacko: (hier positiv!)
.........................................................................
tipp-topp, Klasse, Ia, Spitze [sonst: durchgedreht]
fancy
(adj.):
......................................................................................
ausgefallen, besonders
to do some feeding(informal):
...
....
futtern
to do without:
..
..
ohne etwas auskommen
to tour:
..............................................................................................
unterwegs sein
P.S.
Notwithstanding Marty Feldman's rather condescending treatment of Luxembourg
in this song, it was Luxembourg
(with a population that corresponds roughly to that of Nuremberg minus Erlangen plus Forchheim = a little bit over
300 000 inhabitants) that came
first in the 1983 contest!!!
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