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...whistle, Johanna?" asks a beau showing off his belle in Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna? "Can you sing? Eat a peach? Gargle? Babble?" Johanna (a falsetto Frommermann) dutifully answers, with suitably rude sound effects, until the lover says sternly, "Can you be quiet, Johanna?" The comic portrait of a doomed courtship, in three minutes flat...
...table and use the formula "Darf ich bitten?" Then, do not ask her name (this is very rude), but, after two or three dances politely inquire "Darf ich 'du' sagan?", to which, if you've been at all cool about it, she will smile and answer "Du kannst mich aber Ilse nennen...
...what the Germans call a Schunkelwalzer, the kind of song to sing while buoyed up on Rhine wine, with a fraulein on either side, swaying to the music. It first turned up at the Cologne Carnival in 1935, called Du Kannst Nicht Treu Sein. Too brassy for smart dance orchestras (which have always stuck more to stickier tunes like Lili Marleen), village orchestras and brass bands blared it out, with a strong pair of lungs on the trumpet and a heavy hand on the drum. By the time the Germans invaded Poland, even the barrel organs had given...
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