Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo

Dragon Mood? -- trying to yodel and not spit fireballs at the same time

Well, it's official -- S and I have entered "old folks-hood." Instead of going out and Christmas shopping last night, we opted to stay in and excitedly discovered that "The Sound of Music" was airing on a local channel. Oh boy, oh boy, we're gonna watch The Sound of Music!

We have a joke in our family about the puppeteers in The Sound of Music being Wendish, a wonderfully playful falsehood imagined by Yosh and perpetuated by the rest of us, me in particular. I LOVE the idea of Wendish puppeteers, especially in The Sound of Music.

S and I sat in our little TV room, singing, smiling and bouncing along to the delightful, joie-de-vivre song, "The Lonely Goatherd." I woke up this morning with the yodeling still reverberating in my head. I googled it and found many sites with the lyrics. I reprint them here for your and my amusement.

Come on, come on, I bet you can't read it without singing along:

The Lonely Goatherd

Maria:
High on a hill was a lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

Folks in a town that was quite remote heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Lusty and clear from the goatherd's throat heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

the Children:
O ho lay dee odl lee o, o ho lay dee odl ay
O ho lay dee odl lee o, lay dee odl lee o lay

Maria:
A prince on the bridge of a castle moat heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Kurt:
Men on a road with a load to tote heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

the Children:
Men in the midst of a table d'hote heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Maria:
Men drinking beer with the foam afloat heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

One little girl in a pale pink coat heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Brigitta:
She yodeled back to the lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

Maria:
Soon her Mama with a gleaming gloat heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
What a duet for a girl and goatherd
Maria and the Children:
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

Maria and the Children:
Ummm (ummm) . . .
Odl lay ee (odl lay ee)
Odl lay hee hee (odl lay hee hee)
Odl lay ee . . .
. . . yodeling . . .

Child:
One little girl in a pale pink coat heard
Maria:
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hoo hoo
Child:
She yodeled back to the lonely goatherd
Maria:
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

Maria:
Soon her Mama with a gleaming gloat heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hmm hmm
What a duet for a girl and goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

Maria and the Children:
Happy are they lay dee olay dee lee o . . .
. . . yodeling . . .
Soon the duet will become a trio
Maria:
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

Maria and the Children:
Odl lay ee, old lay ee
Odl lay hee hee, odl lay ee
Odl lay odl lay, odl lay odl lee, odl lay odl lee
Odl lay odl lay odl lay

the Children:
HOO!

I think, in the spirit of aspiring to be an eccentric, I may just take up yodeling as an elder pastime. Whaddaya think???

Odl lay ee, old lay ee
Odl lay hee hee, odl lay ee