"The Pope, he leads a jolly life"
Sep. 28th, 2013 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
necturusThere is an old student song my father used to sing called "The Pope"; it starts out:
"The Pope, he leads a jolly life (jolly life);
He's free from every care and strife (care and strife);
He drinks the best of Rhenish wi-i-ine;
I would the Pope's gay life were mine."
I just discovered that it is actually a translaton of an eighteenth century German song by one Christian Ludwig Noack, "Papst und Sultan".
Cool, huh?
"The Pope, he leads a jolly life (jolly life);
He's free from every care and strife (care and strife);
He drinks the best of Rhenish wi-i-ine;
I would the Pope's gay life were mine."
I just discovered that it is actually a translaton of an eighteenth century German song by one Christian Ludwig Noack, "Papst und Sultan".
Cool, huh?
