RB's Duets: German OldTime Folk Song

Guitar TAB & Notation: http://www.bluegrassforum.eu/resource/guitar/bauer22.pdf This song has been around since the early 1600s in the German speaking areas of Europe. The ballad tells the story of a farmer coming home early in the morning, finding his wife together with the priest. He beats the priest up - the priest jumps to the window and holds his posterior out of the window. Then the song says: "The people gathered from far and wide and thought they found the morning star. But it was only the priest's butthead. So what's the conclusion: Never trust a butthead of a priest (Trau nicht des Pfaffen Arschgesicht)". It is not really translatable because there are some puns in the text. Presumably the song is an outcome of peasant's revolts that took place in central Germany in the 1500s.

This is my second take on this song.

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[TheTomyossarian]

roots of bluegrass?

[reverendbecker]

@TheTomyossarian - It is just the arrangement that reminds to bluegrass I think. On the other hand bluegrass consists of the chord progressions and structures of european folk and dance music: I-IV-V-Progressions in Verse and Chorus or A-A-B-B structures. The big difference to me seems to be that bluegrass is alive while european folk has been drowned out by the crooners.

[bachelorer]

On songs like this can you see, that 60 million americans have a german heretage, its quite similar like western.

[reverendbecker]

Yeah man. Never forget Freiherr von Steuben and Levi Strauss!

[introduction1988]

true true

[reverendbecker]

Ah and I forgot Christian Friedrich (Frederick) Martin

[ricospeedo]

zien wief wil wel met him goan, ai boer ai, zien wief wil wel met him goan ai boer ai.

Nee wief,doe most thoese bliefn aia boer ai,

nee wief doe most thoese bliefn, ai boer ai.

Most spinnen en naain

boer ai boer ai,

most spinnen en naaien boer ai, boer ai..

etc,etc,...

[ricospeedo]

In Dutch, its called..

Ain boer wil noar zier aolders tou, ai boer ai

[TheTomyossarian]

Well, anyway, I love it!

[sparx65]

Sweet little song, Guitar is spot on well played.