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Doc Farmer
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 Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject: WWII Terminology - Translation Requested |
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For our older posters (or their parents) I've got a question. There was a term used in a song back in the WWII era that I've never been able to understand.
Hut Set Ralston On The Rillarock And A Brawla Brawla Suet
What the (bleep) does that mean?
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rbshirley
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:10 pm Post subject: Re: WWII Terminology - Translation Requested |
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| Doc Farmer wrote: | | What the (bleep) does that mean? |
Way before my time also. But a Google search turned up:
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Help is at hand! It's 'The Hut Sut Song'. Seems this very same song
baffled a Usenet group a few years back, and some kind soul came
to the rescue with this info:
Some of the lyrics are Swedish, but the song itself is a blend of some
Swedish phrases and the alleged English translation of them:
Hut-sut Rawlson on the rillerah
And a brawla, brawla soo-it
Hut-sut Rawlson on the rillerah
and a brawla soo - it
Now the Rawlson is a Swedish town
The rillerah is a stream
The brawla is the boy and girl
The Hut-sut is their dream
According to _Popular Music, an Annotated Index of American Popular
Songs, Vol. 4, 1930-1939_ [Ed. Nat Shapiro] "The Hut Sut Song", Words
and music by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael, and Jack Owens, was a
nonsense song published by Brenner Music, Inc. in 1939. It was made
popular by Freddy Martin and his Orchestra, and sung by "The Merry
Macs" in the film "San Antonio Rose" in 1941. There were at least two
other hit versions of the song -- including Horace Heidt and the King
Sisters.
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"The Merry Macs" were also famous for those equally lucid lyrics:
"Oh, marsey doats and dosey doats, and liddlelams edivy, uh kidle
edivy too, wooda uuuuuu?"
?? The Greatest Generation ??
PS: Before you ask:
"Mare's eat oat's
And Doe's eat oat's
And Little Lamb's eat Ivy.
A Kidd Will eat Ivy Too,
Wouldn't You"
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Doc Farmer
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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That's
Mare's eat oats,
and doe's eat oats,
and little lamb's eat ivy,
a kid'll eat ivy too,
wouldn't you...
And Many Thanks for finding that screwy song!
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Just imagine what our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will think of Ina Gadda Da Vida  
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Doc Farmer
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| LewWaters wrote: | | Just imagine what our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will think of Ina Gadda Da Vida |
Bad news - it's already been translated into Muzak.
The horror, the horror...
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RogerRabbit
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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I remember the song well - but have not a clue as to there meaning - any Sweedish speakers out there?
| Quote: | The Hut-Sut Song
Horace Heidt
Words and music by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael & Jack Owens
In a town in Sweden by a stream so clear and cool
A boy would sit and fish and dream when he should have been in school.
Now, he couldn't read or write a word but happiness he found
In a little song he heard and here's how it would sound;
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.
Now the Rawlson is a Swedish town, the rillerah is a stream.
The brawla is the boy and girl,
The Hut-Sut is their dream.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit. |
| Quote: | Leo Killion
b. 1908, Minneapolis, MN, d. Oct. 24 in Mill Valley, CA, USA
Leo, an attorney, is included here because of a tune he co-wrote. Killion grew up in Minneapolis, MN, where he heard Swedish folk songs that he would spoof by writing nonsense lyrics to go along with the music.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota and UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, Killion served aboard the liberty ship William Hume during World War II and then became a labor lawyer. Killion was an early advocate of no-fault automobile insurance for California.
Then, in 1939, along with Ted McMichael and Jack Owens, he co-wrote "The Hut Sut Song". The tune became a huge hit and was popularized a great many of the big bands including the Freddy Martin Orchestra, Kay Kyser Orchestra, and the Horace Heidt Orchestra. In 1941, the 'Merry Macs' vocal group sang it in the movie "San Antonio Rose." Over a decade later, it was featured in the landmark World War II film "From Here to Eternity." Other Swing Era and wartime favorites as Dinah Shore and the Andrews Sisters also recorded the tune, which included such lyrics as "Hut Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and brawla, brawla sooit." Leo Killion was 92 years of age when he died. |
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Snipe
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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I donno. Here in Peoria, we have an annual "Louie, Louie" parade
where all the high shcool bands (and anyone else who shows up)
can march down the street playing "Louie, Louie" on a kazoo.
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USS Endicott
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Mares eat oats will always make me think of my Dad. He sang this song a lot. Of course, he's also a big Spike Jones fan and has some of Spike's old 78 records - cocktails for two, Prince Albert in a Can, and his favorite Beetlebum (chewing gum is sticking to the rail and bring up the rear is - Beetlebum).
2nd verse
Cowseatwheat
andsowseatwheat
andlildogseatliver
acat'lleatlivertoo
wouldn'tyou
Now if the words sound queer
and funny to your ear
a little bit jumbled and jivy
it's cows eat wheat
and sows eat wheat
and little dogs eat liver
My mom always liked the fish song - and they swam and they swam right over the dam.
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This goes to prove that even if you speak english, you may not understand. I don't remember where I found the translation, but I'm sure we remember hearing Waltzing Matilda.
Once a jolly swagman camped beside a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he sat and waited while his billy boiled,
"You'll come a'waltzing Matilda, with me."
Waltzing Matilda--walking with a backpack
swagman--hobo
billabong--pond
coolibah--eucalyptus tree
billy--can for boiling tea
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