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Play Me a Song!
It was impossible to ignore this funny vintage poster at the U Derků pension in Úterý, West Bohemia, when I visited there in May. Luckily, we heard some good old Czech tramping songs later around the fire &mdash the evening didn’t feature too many Communist hymns.
The caption reads, in Czech:
"Nemohl bys mi zahrát nějakou hymnu komunistů?"
"To na kytaru nejde, to jsou většinou sólové písně komediantský buben . . ."
In English:
Her: Couldn't you play me some Communist hymn?
Him: That's impossible on the guitar: they are mostly showy solo songs for percussion.
Tags: Czech, humor, photos
The caption reads, in Czech:
"Nemohl bys mi zahrát nějakou hymnu komunistů?"
"To na kytaru nejde, to jsou většinou sólové písně komediantský buben . . ."
In English:
Her: Couldn't you play me some Communist hymn?
Him: That's impossible on the guitar: they are mostly showy solo songs for percussion.
Tags: Czech, humor, photos
Posted 20 July 2006 at 10:21.
A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.
Comments:
I don't know how I could have forgotten about this remarkable poster. I suspect he might sing her a tramp song, though.
3:41 PM, July 22, 2006
That's true, I my translation lacked the color of the original ... :-)
3:12 PM, July 24, 2006
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