Pigs singing the Happy Wanderer

[MartyMuppets]

Thinking back to Caroline's quip about horoscopes, I wonder if any of those pigs happened to be born in the year of the goat.

Piggies with that sort of astrological background should never climb mountains. Or at least pick very low mountains so that if their star sign jinx catches up with them at least they may have a good chance of surviving their fall

 

[MartyMuppets]

Yippee! This thread of mine has now reached over its 120th post

 

[MartyMuppets]

Oh BTW my current interest is in reading Condensed Books from Reader's Digest and do you know what the story I'm due to read soon when I finish the one before it happens to be called?

"Hard Fall" Isn't that a real hoot? HAHAHAHA

 

[Skye]

Haha, I'll bet those pigs were born under the sign of the goat. It's too bad they didn't think about that before climbing that silly mountain!

"Hard Fall" Isn't that a real hoot? HAHAHAHA

Hey, I didn't know that those pigs wrote a book! That's awesome, Marty. Hope it's a great story!

And hey, big congrats on this thread hitting over 120 posts! We always knew it was a great thread!

 

[CensoredAlso]

Wow, 120 posts...only on a Muppet board, right? Hehe

 

[MartyMuppets]

And hey, big congrats on this thread hitting over 120 posts! We always knew it was a great thread!

Thanks Caroline. A great thread about a great sketch. There's always something new you can come up with to joke about it, isn't there?

This thread can go on forever

 

[Ilikemuppets]

You never know?

 

[MartyMuppets]

Well I can hope can't I?

 

[Dil]

Yeeehee!!!
Your thread is HOT!!!!!!

 

[MartyMuppets]

Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann,
Und mir steckt's auch im Blut;
Drum wandr' ich flott, so lang ich kann,
Und schwenke meinen Hut.

Refrain 1:
Faleri, falera, faleri,
Falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri, falera,
Und schwenke meinen Hut.

Refrain 2&3:
|: Hei-di, hei-da, hei-di, hei-da!
Und schwenke meinen Hut. :|

Das Wandern schaffet frische Lust,
Erhält das Herz gesund;
Frei atmet draußen meine Brust,
Froh singet stets mein Mund:
Refrain:

Warum singt Dir das Vögelein
So freudevoll sein Lied?
Weil's nimmer hockt, landaus, landein
Durch and're Fluren zieht.
Refrain:

Was murmelt's Bächlein dort und rauscht,
So lustig hin durch's Rohr,
Weil's frei sich regt, mit Wonne lauscht
Ihm dein empfänglich Ohr.
Refrain:

D'rum trag ich Ränzlein und den Stab
Weit in die Welt hinein,
Und werde bis an's kühle Grab
Ein Wanderbursche sein!
Refrain:


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I know this sketch is sometimes called fal-de-ri fal-de-ra, even though the song is called the Happy Wanderer and the chorus is actually val-de-ri val-de-ra.
But looking at the chorus in the original German lyrics the derivation must come from the first german chorus.
Hmm. It'd be interesting to find out if that really is german for anything or whether it's just fictitious words, like some of our english songs use words that are completely made up as well.