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Ich bin ein Deutscher	A
und mein name is Cobus Hagelstein	B
I coom from Cincinn ti	C
and I life peyond der Rhein	B
Und I dells you all a shdory	A
dot makes me mad ash blitz	D
Pout how a Yankee gompany	B
vas shvindle me to fits	D
	-
I heardt apout dis gompany	B
und vished to see dot same	E
Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft	C
vos ids name	E
Dot is de name in Sherman	B
in English it will say	F
Dot it insures your life mit fire	A
ven you de money pay	F
	-
Now I hod a liddle house line	B
vhere I life so shtill ash mice	G
Und yoost drei tausand dollar	A
vos dot little pilding's brice	G
I vos always yoost so happy	C
ash ein Kaisar in de land	C
Dill at last I kit in drople	H
for mein haus vas abgebrannt	C
	-
Den I goes undo dot gompany	B
und dells em right afay	I
Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft	C
und I say	F
At last de youngest day ist coom	E
for you to plank de cash	J
And you moost bay me monies	K
for mine haus is purned to ash	J
	-
Den de segredary answered	C
All dis is fery drue	A
Boot you know ve have de option	B
to pild your house anew	B
Dere ist a lot of beoples	K
vot burns deir hauser doun	B
Den coom to kit de money pack	L
all over in de toun	B
	-
I look indo de bapers	K
und I find it ash he say	K
Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft	C
need not bay	K
So I dells em all to go ahet	C
und pild anoder shdore	A
Und dey make me von in Yankee shdyle	H
more petter ash pefore	A
	-
Den I met der segredary	A
dereafter on a day	C
Of Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft	C
und he say	C
You've found oos vellers honoraple	H
und honest in our line	B
Vy tont you go insure	A
de life of Madame Hagelstein	B
	-
I poots mine dum oopon mine nose	K
and vinks him mit mine eye	M
Und says I cooms to do it	C
ven de oc an runs dry	M
Ven gooses turn to ganders	K
und de bigs kits shanged to shvine	B
Oh den I makes insure de life	I
of Madame Hagelstein	B
	-
I haf dried you on insurance	K
ash you know yust vonce pefore	M
Und ven mein haus vas abgebrannt	C
you pild anoder shdore	M
Id's drue you pild it goot enough	I
boot I dell you allaweil	H
I vas liket id moosh petter	M
if it vas in Sharman shdyle	H
	-
Now if I goes insure my wife	I
anoder dime mit you	B
Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft	C
I knows vot it would do	C
If from dis vorldt Frau Hagelstein	B
should rise to Himmel life	I
Inshtead of paying gelt you'd kit	C
for me a Yankee vife	I
	-
I poots mine dum pelow mine eye	M
und vinks him merrily	H
Und say Go find soom Deutscherman	B
dot is more creen ash me	H
Dere's blendy of dem creen enough	I
I know peyond der Rhein	B
But none among dem wears de name	E
of Cobus Hagelstein	B

Charles G. Leland

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