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Our people came out with
the Egerland dialect of Bohemia, and it remained and passed on through the
generations, sadly fewer, still speak it now. Recordings have been made to preserve what little we could
and some of the music did have lyrics.
Songs and rhymes in
Egerlander dialect, still sung and spoken in Puhoi:
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1) Polka
Moidal rupf di, Moidal
zupf, kämm di schäi
am Somsta wern auf d' heit gen
liachs' kleine Schaichle und Schtrimpfe 'umme an
das mir recht schein dontzen kuen.
(Moidal = Mädl,
Kemm = Kämm,
Schaichl = Schuhe,
Kuen = können)
Girl,
comb and plait your hair
and make yourself look beautiful
On Saturday we're going courting.
Put on your little shoes and stockings
so that we can dance well together
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2)
Polka
Oh
du schäina Summa blouma
håst du mir ma Freid wegnumma
liegst du mir in Scähinen drin
wöi döi jud in Saistull drin
Oh you
beautiful summer flowers
you've taken away all my joy
you've cast me down in the dust
like the jew in the pigsty
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3)
Polka
Wea
heit mei Mutter mei hosen nit gflickt
so wär ich gonge im Hemd
so wär ich gonge inn Fremd
(gonge
= gegangen)
If my
mother hadn't patched my trousers
I would have gone in my shirt
I would have gone to strange lands..
(so keen I was to go courting)
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4)Polka
Håns
geh Huom, Håns geh Huom
weiss döi's niat wöi's
Wiera wird
Hans geh Huom.
Kann sie renga, Kann sie schneira
Morgn fräih tut's da reia
Håns geh Huom, Håns
blei dou.
(wiera
= wetter, huom = heim)
Johnny
go home, Johnny go home
you don't know what the weather is going to be like
Johnny go home
it could rain, it could snow
you'll regret it early tomorrow morning
Johnny go home, Johnny stay there.
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5)Schottisch
Boira
häng da Bummel ua
dös der mi niat stoß'n kua
Stoßt der mi, so straf I' di,
Hunnert Tåler kostet's di
Farmer,
tie up your steer
so that he can't get me
If he gets me, I'll punish you
It will cost you a hundred dollars
A hundred dollars is a lot of money.
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7)Schottisch
Wiewadl,
wawadl, was is das?
Hinter the Häi dort'n grabbett was
Is kein Hirsch und is kein Haas
Wiewadl, Wawadl, was is das?
Little
woman, little woman, what is it?
something scrabbling behind the wall
Little woman, little woman, what is it?
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Bohemia
was part of the
Austrian - Hungarian Empire
in Europe up until 1918,
after 1945 it became
included within Czechoslovakia.
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