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Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Karan

Helen

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Liner Notes:

Songsville (http://fawm.org/fawmers/songsville/) suggested that a whole song could be made out of the lovely word "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz " (beef labeling regulation and delegation of supervision law),. Then he immediately tried to cop out on the basis of being a vegetarian...

OK, here are the lyrics (open to be set to music by vegetarians and meat-eaters alike).

Edit: Helen is going to brave it out! But if anybody else is enticed as well, just go for it. Maybe we get a carnivore's version as well as a vegetarian's.

Helen says: May I first of all apologise for my bad German accent and second of all apologise for my mockney accent - what's that about?

For what it's worth, I haven't eaten meat for 8 years and not eaten beef for 20. Probably explains why I can't say it in German... maybe? Can I use that excuse?

Lyrics:

They loved to eat
a lot of meat.
And as it were
they liked it rare,
they liked it done
they liked it medium as well,
but when it started to smell putrid,
they got angry like hell.
They could refuse it,
they could complain,
but they assumed that this would be quite in vain.
Therefore they all got together and avowed
that rotten meat should nevermore be allowed.
They put a label on every cutlet
to mark it as a recent bloodlet.
And then they made a proper law,
from which no butcher could withdraw.
Now you are going to be told
how this ordinance was called:

It is the Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (oh yeah!)
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (shoobidoo!)
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (insert exultation of your choice)...

... and so on and so forth...

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Psy-T 1 week ago

Fun song, and that's gotta be the best hook ever written!
clairendan 1 week ago

Nice harmonies and jolly ukele!
Roy Estel Hughes 3 weeks ago

WoW! My head spins just listening to this song, and it has nothing to do with the fact that I am delerious from being ill the past week... that is a very very very very very very very very long word!

Congrats on even being able to say it without your head exploding, Helen!

And a fine word to test us all with, Karan!
Dennis Jernberg 3 weeks ago

Oh ja! Heard this on BBoredC today. Too cute! Ukuleles and unpronounceably long German words go great together. And I think that mockney accent, however bad, was perfect for this. Wunderbar!
timmyriordan 3 weeks ago

This is lots of fun. Great use of a small instrument to explicate the story of a damn big word. Is such a thing as anti-prosody? (Maybe that's just irony).
Kenny Hyslop 3 weeks ago

This is great. I've always liked your mockney accent Helen. Is that the longest word in the whole world?
Debs 4 weeks ago

Hahaha! Awesome. This is SO CUTE. Love the stacking in the...Rindfleish...does fleish mean flesh? vocals. And the giggling. I couldn't come close to saying that.
willis fireball 1 month ago

indeed. i was going to comment on the cutlet-bloodlet even before i heard the chords you went to there. sehr gut, oh yeah.
Balance Lost 1 month ago

I've got to learn how to say that word, this is genius.
j$ 1 month ago

Shoobidoo! Very cute. My ukulele individuality feels threatened by funnier songs played and sung better than me!
lapetitekiwi 1 month ago

Sounds great, a really fun song from you two!! Thank you for bringing us smiles and laughter!!
Stephen Wordsmith 1 month ago

Listening to this brought a huge smile to my face. Particularly at the point when an echo was brought in for the key word. Remarkably catchy and rhythmic for 18 (19?) syllables.

This song makes me greatful I'm not a hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobic.
Jinx 1 month ago

Wunderkomisches Lied, ich bin sehr beeindruckt!

This song has officially made me a fan.
jaydaniels 1 month ago

Five stars just for being able to sing that, um, ordinance name. Oh yeah!
Audita Sum 1 month ago

This is fun. Funny how it actually ends with the words "and so on and so forth." Ha.
Corinne Curcio 1 month ago

LOL Shoobidoo!
AquaMunkee 1 month ago

I absolutely love the way you've arranged this guys - brilliant!
Girls In Uniform 1 month ago

Brilliant. This is the sort of thing I'd like to hear on Radio 1.
P.M.C.O. 1 month ago

Sehr Toll!
Angry Plant 1 month ago

HAHAHA!
rashbre 1 month ago

Ausgezeichnete Titel und Chorus. Strangely enough, I also like the way the lyrics build and the shape of the printed words for this one.
The Cow Exchange 1 month ago

Really fun. Rindy and I are gonna be good friends.
Billy Sea 1 month ago

Wow, this is so incredible. Totally awesome
Benjamin Nolan 1 month ago

Haha, I love the way you've set it. +++++
lgilbert 1 month ago

LOL. Extremely fun!
greenambit 1 month ago

This is hilarious! Love it!
orinoco 1 month ago

Genius! Well done both of you
isaac quatorze 1 month ago

HAHAHAHAHAH yes!
songsville 1 month ago

OMG just got back from work this is awesomely wonderhumblingfully great! I would never have used a uke, it provides a lovely light counterbalance to the stodginess of the ordinance name ...

Can't wait for the Bavarian oompah brass band band remix ....
cts 1 month ago

Well now that was a bit of odd fun.
Morti 1 month ago

You are both odd but I love you. Thanks, I enjoyed that.
tie dye hero 1 month ago

Thanks for making my work day a little brighter with yr ukelele and unusually long german words. beautiful
Karan 1 month ago

Oh Helen, I LOVE it!
And I will make an official proposal to the Society of German Language to change the pronunciation of this word to how you did it. It is much nicer that way.
Errol 1 month ago

BWA HA HA HA That's great! And Helen can pronounce these words much better than I ever could. Oh dear, I think I'm going to be in a lot of trouble. I think everyone should have one German song in their repetoire! With words like these. That would be AWESOME!

The problem, I find, is that I feel a need to sing along, but I get lost at the "Rind" part. And then I join in again at the "tiki" part, but then I lose it completely. So I go.. "RINE"...er.. "TIKI"... "FLEW GEN"... wait, there's no flugen in there. But there should be. I hope that's not a nasty word, I just for some reason heard flugen.

And my exultation of choice would obviously be "HUZZAH". In german accent. Which, I can't really sound out in my head. I will have to ask Karan say "Huzzah" for me in her thickest german accent.

Wait, I didn't hear a shoobidoo. I think I missed the shoobidoo. Nope, listened to it again, there is no shoobidoo. WHAT? I mean, the oh yea harmonies are cool and all, but I was promised SHOOBIDOO!!
G Slade 1 month ago

lolololololololol...i love it....Everyone must hear this song...I'll stick it on my profile...lol
sapient network 1 month ago

Bloody good job H. It might be one word, but it has a lovely rhythm all of its very own

And I love the way the song title doesn't fit on screen and just runs and runs across the top of my broswer...
Jeff Landgraf 1 month ago

Wins the award for longest 1 word chorus!
hoops 1 month ago

lol! just keeps getting better as it goes on. The harmonies at the end are great. I gather you didn't pronounce it quite right but it would have fooled me

edit: ah that was until I heard Karan's authentic pronunciation. Stilll lots of fun though
Benjamin Nolan 1 month ago

Aief... I can't even begin to parse that. O.o
sapient network 1 month ago

Blimey. Can't wait to hear H's version of this. I mean, what kind of rhythm does that word have?!?