by GermanXJW 6 Replies latest jw friends
Once I overheard the chorus of this rather bad German song on the radio. Since then, it was not the same singing song No 19 "Joyful All Day Long"
1. Come rejoice! Leap for joy! In God’s favor we do bask.
http://www.file-upload.net/download-320549/Elfi-Graf---Kneipe-Rein-Excerpt.mp3.html
The translation of the German chorus is
"Get into the pub, get out of it, and then back home for the sports news."
I have to agree the German song is "sehr schlecht".
Which song came first, Joyful All Day Long or "Kneipe Rein, Kneipe Raus"? The Kingdom song first came out in 1984.
The German song is from 1980:
http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Elfi+Graf&titel=Kneipe+rein+Kneipe+raus&cat=s
I have just found out that Elfi Graf is not a German but an Austrian singer. Please notice that. ;-)
Maybe this happened (pure fantasy):
An Austrian JW was sitting alone in the bar because he was bored with his life as a pioneer JW. He hears this funky song on the radio there "Kneipe Rein Kneipe Raus" and enjoys it, having little sophistication in his musical taste. He thinks about how the song expresses the simple joys of the common man.
Then with the tune stuck in his head, he starts writing the song that would be Kingdom Song 19, and sends it into the WT Society. Fortunately, they are compiling a new songbook and are thrilled with this wonderful composition from their European brother.
Stranger things have happened.
It seems Germans are good at inspiring the WTS music : in the 80s, when we still had the K songs in the form of the pink booklet, I remember having heard the overture of a Wagner opera which was just identical to one of the kingdom songs. This KS has been deleted since then. A general explanation had been given in a talk at a DA,saying that the JWs who had composed some of the KS music might have unwittingly reproduced famous ones. That's quite plausible, Chalie Chaplin had the same pb.
The song from Disney's "Snow White" is still in there: song 222 "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"
The song from Disney's "Snow White" is still in there: song 222 "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"
Here we go:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wF2oah1D8_c
