Rockaria! by ELO - Lyrics at Beginning of Song?

[Bee's Knees]

What is the opera singer singing at the beginning of this song?

[Jim Wehner]

Bee's Knees <nooz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the opera singer singing at the beginning of this song?

Coincidentally, I've recently introduced this song to my kids (4 yo twins
& a 16 month-old) and my song wants to know what she's singing too.

Anyone have the German lyrics?

Thanks.
Jim

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[Jim Wehner]

> Thanks.
> Jim

That should read "my son" - Adam, to be specific - a really cool 4
year-old.

[R H Draney]

Jim Wehner filted:

Are we even sure they're German?...

I have a hunch we're going to find out it's like the "man selling ice cream,
singing Italian songs" in "Saturday in the Park", or the closing theme to "WKRP
in Cincinatti"....r

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We are the parents our people warned us about.

[jt]

She's singing nonsense.

I have the sheet music, and for those bars of music, it has no lyrics,
just the (hilarious) instruction: "Simulate Foreign Language"!

In article <4446...@nap.mtholyoke.edu>, Jim Wehner

[Jim Wehner]

No kidding? That's funny!!

jt <tiki...@nospamyahoo.com> wrote:

> She's singing nonsense.

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[Timo Heil]

Bee's Knees schrieb:

> What is the opera singer singing at the beginning of this song?
>

Hi,

found this on a lyrics site which makes sense to me as a native German
speaker (though the belcanto singing is not quite clear):

"Weit ..oops .. weit hinein in die Ferne
man hört, man hört die Musik"

Which is German and means something like:

Far.....oops ;-)....in the far distance one can hear (one can hear) the
music playing.

Regards,
Timo

[Jim Wehner]

I like that answer better. Thanks, Timo.
:-)
Jim

1/2 German ancestry, but Ich spreche deutsch nicht (that's just a guess -
sorry if I mangled it)

[t.blu...@googlemail.com]

She is singing : Weit in die Ferne , man hört, man hört die Musik 😉

[t.blu...@googlemail.com]

Without ooops 👍

[word...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:05:00 UTC-4, Jim Wehner wrote:

> > Anyone have the German lyrics?
>
> > Thanks.
> > Jim
>
> That should read "my son" - Adam, to be specific - a really cool 4
> year-old.

Yes, I know the type. :{]

I had one of those critters, myself, and an 11-year-old son ("step-son" — psssh, just "son"), at the time, both cool and brilliant. Still are, at 28 and 35. Yikes. 𝑇𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑔𝑖𝑡!

I doubt you'll ever read this, 11 years after posting, but I had to chip in my paternal accordance. I'm sure someone, somewhere, sometime will relate to it, as I did.

Cheers from Toronto.

// 'Word' //

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[word...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:47:46 UTC-4, jt wrote:
> She's singing nonsense.
>
> I have the sheet music, and for those bars of music, it has no lyrics,
> just the (hilarious) instruction: "Simulate Foreign Language"!

Evidently, they decided against that option.

The lyric, as I remember it (I'm sure someone's reply that I haven't read, yet, has it exactly, after 11 years!) is:

"Fern... fern in die Ferngeness (?)
Man hört, man hört die Musik..."

["Far, far in the distance, one hears, one hears the/some music", or loosely, "music is heard"]

... echoing Jeff's semi-sung, semi-shouted line,

"Ah, far, far away
the music
is playing..."

// Steve //

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[word...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, 12 April 2016 09:49:53 UTC-4, t.blu...@googlemail.com wrote:

> She is singing : Weit in die Ferne , man hört, man hört die Musik 😉

Belated thanks to you, and to Timo.

Ich spreche Deutsch nicht gut, und "evidentlich" ich habe das "gefucketupen".

Yeah, being a Canadian of Irish/English background, and a lover of language, familiar with Old English and Old Norse a bit, and modern Dutch some, and West Germanic language, among others, I just make it up as I go along. :{]

I don't make up •plausible• words, but they work for me. And if you can't please everybody, why not have a little fun for yourself, once in a while? Nicht wahr?

// Steve in Toronto //

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