December 28, 2006

Schnappi.

Das kleine Krokodil:



(Via Metafilter.)

14 comments:

tjl said...

Oh no, Schnappi's little ditty is one of those tunes that is totally maddening because you can't get it out of your head.

Ann Althouse said...

Chez Althouse, we laugh every time the chorus comes up.

Anonymous said...

Wenn ich das Wort Krokodil höre, erreiche ich bereits für mein Luger.

sonicfrog said...

Althouse ist wie ein Kasten Schokoladen...

American Liberal Elite said...
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American Liberal Elite said...

'Raus mit dir, Schnappi,Schnappi, Schnappi, Schnappi ... ACH!!!! Schnappi ist kein Krokodil. Schnappi ist ein Ohrworm!

Ann Althouse said...

Tim: It was just up on Metafilter yesterday, and I'd never seen it before. My standard here was that it made us laugh a lot.

bearbee said...

Had to go hunt out a translation and also found that "schnappen" is slang-word, means actually to bite but without hurting.:

I am Schnappi, the little crocodile,
I live in Egypt, right next to the Nile,
first I lived in an egg,
but then shnapped my way free

chorus
Schni-schna-schnappi schnappi-schnappi-schnapp
.....

I am Schnappi the little crocodile
have sharp teeth and mighty many of them
I shnap what's there to shnap
I shnap and am good at it

chorus

I am Schnappi the little crocodile
I love to shnap, that's my favourite play
I sneak up to mum
and show her how well I shnap

chorus

I am Schnappi the little crocodile
I'm never tired of shnapping
I shnap daddy's leg
and then just fall asleep

chorus

bearbee said...

I had to hunt out a translation and also found that "schnappen" is slang-word, means actually to bite but without hurting.:

I am Schnappi, the little crocodile,
I live in Egypt, right next to the Nile,
first I lived in an egg,
but then shnapped my way free

chorus
Schni-schna-schnappi schnappi-schnappi-schnapp
.....

I am Schnappi the little crocodile
have sharp teeth and mighty many of them
I shnap what's there to shnap
I shnap and am good at it

chorus

I am Schnappi the little crocodile
I love to shnap, that's my favourite play
I sneak up to mum
and show her how well I shnap

chorus

I am Schnappi the little crocodile
I'm never tired of shnapping
I shnap daddy's leg
and then just fall asleep

chorus

Ruth Anne Adams said...
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sonicfrog said...

Ann, you must be doing something right. It only took ten comments before a troll crawled out from under the network bridge!

Kev said...

Ha, that was great! I remember when the song came out a few years ago, but I'd never seen the video before.

Anonymous said...

Schnappi aß nicht die Fliege. Es muß eine amerikanische Fliege gewesen sein.

Dactyl said...

I don't think crocodiles eat flies...

[My German is a little rough, did Theo just say the samt thing?]

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