Spoon / Loeffel
Not from silver / Nicht aus Silber |
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Spoon / Loeffel
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You don't know the old german kitchen song??? It is about a housemaid, not really young any more and until then of good repute, that met a shoemaker who proposed to her and then proceeded to con her out of all her savings. Finally she starts to steal at her employer's house for him, is cought and kicked out. When the guy then states he does not want to marry her any more and she yells at him in dispair he cuts her throat. He is cought, convicted for murder and hanged, and that was all about that.
To this day it can't be established where the concrete criminal case happened if it ever did, the song says only the shoemaker dude came from Treuenbrietzen, which might be as well for the metric and/or the writer liked the towns name or hated someone there, but meanwhile they took over the well known Sabienchen for touristic marketing there, had her even trademarked for all kinds of purposes.
In fact I got the impression that almost everyone who speaks just a bit of german knows to sing of the Sabienchen. It is almost like the stupid three cornered hat, or the king's yodler -- even bands in "German" fun towns in the USA play the awful goey tune that lends itself as well to steam organs and such oldfashioned fair instruments as it does to mechanical household work turning some crank handle, for example churning butter or grinding coffe.
They used to draw a comic poster to hang on a map holder back then and point to the matching pics with a stick whilst singing the stanzas on streetfairs as a money making attraction, and the people watching learned the gory texts and simple tunes to sing after memory at home and at work.