"Row Out the Barrel"
"Roll out the Barrel and We'll have a Barrel of Fun"
Come Dance the Polka with me !!!
Have a Beer !
and some Pretzels too !
Fill er Up !!
Thank You for coming to our Beer Barrel Polka
!!
A strong young man at the construction site was bragging that he could outdo anyone in a feat of strength. He made a special case of making fun of Morris, one of the older workmen. After several minutes, Morris had enough.
"Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?" he said. "I will bet a week's wages that I can haul something in a wheelbarrow over to that outbuilding that you won't be able to wheel back."
"You're on, old man," the braggart replied. "It's a bet! Let's see what you got."
Morris reached out and grabbed the wheelbarrow by the handles. Then, nodding to the young man, he said, "All right. Get in."
"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
- Thich Nhat Hahn
"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
- Stephen Vincent Benét
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."
- Dennis P. Kimbro
"Don't be afraid to fail because only through failure do you learn to succeed."
- Unknown
There's a garden, what a garden
Only happy faces bloom there
And
there's never any room
For a worry or a gloom
There's music, and there's
dancing
And a lot of sweet romancing
When they play the polka
They all
get in the swing
Everytime you hear that Oom-pah-pah
Everbody feels so
tra-la-la-la
They only want to come back for one thing
They crowd around
and sing trolly-olly-ay
And you hear that rumble on the floor
It's a big
(HA HA HA HA) surprise you're waiting for
Then all at once everybody,
everybody, forms a ring
(Spoken: Come on everybody get up and form a ring.
That's
the way, everybody get up and form a big ring. That's the way.
Then
all at once you form a ring. Everybody get up and form a
ring. Here's a tenth
of everybody....)
For miles around, you'll hear them sing
Roll out the barrel, We'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the barrel, we've
got the blues on the run
Zing Boom Terrara
Join in a glass of good
cheer
Now it's time to roll the barrel
For the gang's all here (Spoken:
Take it away boys!)
Beer Barrel Polka is a song which became world wide well known during World War II. It is known also as Roll Out the Barrel. The music was originally composed by the Czech Jaromír Vejvoda in 1927. Eduard Ingris wrote the first arrangement of the famous song, after Jaromir Vejvoda came upon the melody and sought Eduard Ingris' help in refining it. At that time, it was played without lyrics as Modranská polka (Polka of Modrany). Its first text was written by Václav Zeman in 1934 – Škoda lásky (Wasted Love).
The polka went to the world very soon. In 1938, Will Glahé sold one million copies of its German version Rosamunde and got a Gold Album for it. Shapiro Bernstein published the song under the name of Beer Barrel Polka a year later. The authors of English lyrics were Lew Brown and Wladimir Timm. Meanwhile, the song was played also by many others, for example Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Benny Goodman or Billie Holiday.
During World War II, versions in many other languages were created and the song was popular among soldiers of most of armies, despite of the side where they fought. It was claimed many times that the song was written in the country where it just became a hit. A real author became world wide known as late as after the war.
A former Foreign Minister of Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher even made a bet that it was a German song. He lost.