Die Comedian Harmonists sing Wochenend und Sonnenschein in 1930:
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swiss reader
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Weekend and sunshine do you need more to be happy? weekend and sunshine and then with you in the woods alone I need nothing more to be happy
Above us,the skylarks sing just like us,a song all the little birds cheerfully tune in weekend and sunshine
No car and no avenue and nobody near us deep in the woods,just me and you The lord turns a blind eye since HE bestowed upon us,for our happiness, weekend and sunshine
Six days of work,but on the seventh thou shalt rest,spoke the Lord, but we have something to do on the seventh one,too.
My father(born 1915) told me,they would sing in Berlin backyards,and people would throw money out the windows for them.This was the Depression years,as depicted in Alfred Döblin`s "Berlin Alexanderplatz".Döblin was a doctor for the poorest,thats where he got his stories.After reading that book,I said to my father,I had no idea life was so tough then.He summed the book up perfectly:Yes,all of the men were criminals and all of the women were whores.
The German version is credited to Charles Amberg, but there's almost nothing about him online. On French Wikipedia, he's said to be a Catholic, and there's a brief account elsewhere of him being taken for a Jew and sent to a concentration camp, which he survived. Do you know anything about Amberg?
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Weekend and sunshine
do you need more to be happy?
weekend and sunshine
and then with you in the woods alone
I need nothing more to be happy
Above us,the skylarks sing
just like us,a song
all the little birds cheerfully tune in
weekend and sunshine
No car and no avenue
and nobody near us
deep in the woods,just me and you
The lord turns a blind eye
since HE bestowed upon us,for our happiness,
weekend and sunshine
Six days of work,but on the seventh
thou shalt rest,spoke the Lord,
but we have something to do on the seventh one,too.
My father(born 1915) told me,they would sing in Berlin backyards,and people would throw money out the windows for them.This was the Depression years,as depicted in Alfred Döblin`s "Berlin Alexanderplatz".Döblin was a doctor for the poorest,thats where he got his stories.After reading that book,I said to my father,I had no idea life was so tough then.He summed the book up perfectly:Yes,all of the men were criminals and all of the women were whores.
Hi Swiss Reader,
The German version is credited to Charles Amberg, but there's almost nothing about him online. On French Wikipedia, he's said to be a Catholic, and there's a brief account elsewhere of him being taken for a Jew and sent to a concentration camp, which he survived. Do you know anything about Amberg?
Linh
Nothing.I only know they must have been very popular at the time,from my fathers stories.
Thanks for posting this on the first sunshiny and not cold weekend here,a perfect fit!
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