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Oh Du Lieber Augustin

by Paul Taylor on October 31, 2017 at 11:32 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Atsali, Castela, Nadette, Skylar
Location: Franz's Tokyo Beer Garden, Gilchrist Home

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  1. JSStryker
    October 31, 2017, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

    Poor Nadette, what she see and what is really going on aren’t matching up!

    • All-Purpose Guru
      November 1, 2017, 12:58 am | # | Reply

      Actually, it’s matching up perfectly. The problem is that Nadette is putting her own interpretation on her “vision” and that isn’t synced with reality.

      …and apparently Nadette can do auto-translation from German.

      • scantrontb
        November 1, 2017, 5:53 am | #

        and the “Law of Funny” requires them to go in guns blazing to “rescue her” with much hilarity ensuing, all to find out it’s a false alarm…

      • Tim
        November 2, 2017, 1:46 am | #

        And the Law of Drama requires Nadette to get angry when Atsali is having fun and not in danger like she envisioned.

  2. gyrre
    October 31, 2017, 11:55 pm | # | Reply

    Well, Skylar did say it was para-friendly.

  3. Badeyes
    October 31, 2017, 11:56 pm | # | Reply

    Snorting beer stings, wife was all “Why are you foaming at the nose?”

    • Random Guy
      November 1, 2017, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

      Really? Mine would have laughed and called me a ‘dumb-ass’.

  4. Great Scott
    November 1, 2017, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    I always thought it was “Ach, du lieber Augustin…” (that was the way I learned it when I was a kid…)

    • Greywolf1963
      June 25, 2020, 3:58 pm | # | Reply

      Like many cultural songs, the words change depending on region and time period.

  5. Dan Farris
    November 1, 2017, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Ach, du lieber Augustin,
    Augustin, Augustin,
    Ach, du lieber Augustin,
    Alles ist hin!

    Geld ist weg, Mensch ist weg,
    Alles hin, Augustin!
    Ach, du lieber Augustin,
    Alles ist hin!

    • Treesong
      November 1, 2017, 11:46 am | # | Reply

      They’re singing line 5 as ‘Geld ist weg, Mäd’l ist weg’ (Money’s gone, girlfriend’s gone). Presumably that would be grandpa’s version.

  6. Dan Farris
    November 1, 2017, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    This is what I remember my grandmother singing.

  7. Peabody
    November 1, 2017, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    Since I’m one of those monolinguistic idiots, give me a translation.

    • DJTsurugi
      November 1, 2017, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      Oh dear Augustin,
      Augustin, Augustin,
      Oh dear Augustin,
      Everything is broken!
      Money is gone, man is gone,
      Everything, Augustin!
      Oh dear Augustin,
      Everything is broken!

      • Centaur71
        January 28, 2024, 8:57 am | #

        Reminds me of the song ‘everything is broken’ by Kenny Wayne Shepard

    • lake_wrangler
      November 1, 2017, 10:09 am | # | Reply

      Don’t worry, even a trilingual guy can get lost, provided German is not one of the three languages he speaks…
      (English, French, and Haitian Creole…)

  8. TheJabberwonky
    November 1, 2017, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    For the song… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVFL1yAw9E For the lyrics… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_du_lieber_Augustin

    • lake_wrangler
      November 1, 2017, 10:10 am | # | Reply

      Follow a link, follow another, and soon you end up watching twins playing the accordion while simultaneously rolling on roller skates (the twins, not me…)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpmDAu_47OE

      • Merle
        November 1, 2017, 11:03 am | #

        Personally, I’m surprised this wasn’t the first version I saw linked. https://youtu.be/CIk4sC8ASS0

    • BarerMender
      November 1, 2017, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

      This is the version I learned in first grade. https://youtu.be/5vrp0KMZyKE

  9. All-Purpose Guru
    November 1, 2017, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    The drunk Japanese customer is cute…

    • Samuraieagle
      November 1, 2017, 7:27 am | # | Reply

      funny thing, i thought it was conscience untill read who the characters shown were.

  10. Rrolf
    November 1, 2017, 3:09 am | # | Reply

    The song is Vienese, not German, and of a rather gruesome origin:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_du_lieber_Augustin

    • illiad
      November 1, 2017, 3:48 am | # | Reply

      ah so the proper translation is ‘all is lost’ not ‘all is broken’ 🙂 make sense now…

    • B0mar
      November 1, 2017, 10:33 pm | # | Reply

      It’s the same Vintage [1679,] and origins as “Ring around the Rosey” and doesn’t bear up well under literal translation. To be fair it appears to commemorate a popular Viennese Bagpiper, and Balladeer who actually SURVIVED the Plague. [which explains the upbeat tempo.]

      • A.Sarras
        November 2, 2017, 6:10 am | #

        … but according to legend was thought dead, while only dead drunk, and woke up the next day in a pit outside Vienna, where they carted all those plague victims to.

        As a born Viennese it brings fond memories back for me. 😉
        ‘Course our beer actually contains significant amounts of alcohol….

  11. The Old Wolf
    November 1, 2017, 4:24 am | # | Reply

    Am best im Ottakringerdialekt gesungen! This comic needs a “love” button <3

  12. scantrontb
    November 1, 2017, 5:50 am | # | Reply

    and the REALLY scary part: she’s started seeing visions of Atsali again… to me that means that they aren’t as close as they once were and are drifting further apart. probably as a consequence of what she stated way back in the beginning, where she can’t see visions of those she’s attracted to (not sure if i’m remembering exactly right, though).

    • HowNowBrownCow
      November 1, 2017, 10:47 am | # | Reply

      Atsali and Nadette were never close, Nadette just seems to use her for physical and emotional support

    • Sunny
      November 1, 2017, 4:38 pm | # | Reply

      In this case it seems to be due to the physical distance. As in, more or less the entire earth. So they’re still emotionally close, but their respective geographical locations combined with prolonged periods of not meeting in person allows Nadette to have visions regarding Atsali.

    • Greywolf1963
      June 25, 2020, 4:04 pm | # | Reply

      Seers tend not to be able to see future’s that involve them directly. Since she is not currently in Atsali’s presence, she can get visions of her.

  13. Michael
    November 1, 2017, 7:34 am | # | Reply

    Good choice of a song. Better than “WEsterwald”, that i mentioned before. That one was used with marching soldiers. Too much bad german clichee.

    Another Song:
    “mir san die lustigen Holzhacker buam”.
    Bavarian or from Alpen area too, funny and fits to “Biergarten” same as the costumes.

  14. Michael
    November 1, 2017, 7:50 am | # | Reply

    Some other proposals for drinking songs. often from students:
    .Bier her, bier her, oder ich fall um, juche (my own translation: bring the beer, bring the beer, else i will fall down, yeah)
    -Heute blau, morgen blau und übermorgen wieder,
    ich bin dein und du bist mein und froh sind unsere Lieder
    (my own translation: -today pissed, tomorrow pissed and again the other day, I am yours and you are mine and jolly our songs.)
    -in München steht ein Hofbräuhaus, eins, zwei g’suffa (In munich there is a Hofbräuhaus, one, two drink up (guzzle down))

    • Greyhame
      November 1, 2017, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

      “-Heute blau, morgen blau und übermorgen wieder,
      ich bin dein und du bist mein und froh sind unsere Lieder”
      “Drunk last night. drunk the night before”?

      • Michael
        November 2, 2017, 6:01 pm | #

        drunk today, drunk tomorrow and drunk the next day.

      • Michael
        November 2, 2017, 6:02 pm | #

        blue, intoxicated, smashed. Kind of drunk but peacefull.

    • Sunny
      November 1, 2017, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

      How about a variation of a song since St. Martin’s day is on the 11th?

      Ich sitz’ in meiner Taverne
      In meiner Taverne mit dir
      Da oben da fliegen die Engel
      Hier Unten hier saufen wir

      Mein Glas ist leer
      Ich hol gleich mehr
      Rabimmel rabammel rabumm

      TL:
      I sit in my tavern
      In my tavern with you
      Above the angels fly
      Down here we booze

      My glass is empty
      I’ll go get more
      Rabimmel rabammel rabumm

      It’s sung to the melody of a song that children traditionally sing on the 11th November when Saint martin of Tours is remembered for not being a complete douchebag.

      • Michael
        November 2, 2017, 6:08 pm | #

        o nice one. I did that original St Martins thing myself with lantern and all except i cannot sing and all ask me to stop it. Since when is sharing with the poor a douchebag thing?
        By the way its also the beginning of the funny season. Preparations and things for Karneval or Fasching starts. Exactly at 11:11 on 11.11.

    • Robert Nowall
      November 1, 2017, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

      Im Himmel gibt’s kein Bier,
      Drum trinken wir es hier.
      Denn sind wir nicht mehr hier,
      Dann trinken die andern unser Bier.

      • Robert Nowall
        November 1, 2017, 10:41 pm | #

        Roughly:

        In Heaven, there is no beer.
        That’s why we drink it here.
        And when we are gone from here,
        The others will be drinking all the beer.

  15. Robert Nowall
    November 1, 2017, 9:07 am | # | Reply

    Wochenend und Sonnenschein
    und dann mit dir im Wald allein,
    weiter brauch ich nichts zum Glücklichsein,
    Wochenend und Sonnenschein.

    • Greyhame
      November 1, 2017, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

      ” I’m walkin on sunshine”?

      • Robert Nowall
        November 1, 2017, 4:21 pm | #

        “Weekend and sunshine.” Hunt it down on YouTube—you’ll be surprised.

      • Robert Nowall
        November 1, 2017, 4:24 pm | #

        On second thought…

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ey9wYTOgew

    • Michael
      December 26, 2017, 8:22 pm | # | Reply

      Great boygroup, destroyed by those Nazi douchebags.

  16. Dred.Insomniac
    November 1, 2017, 10:58 am | # | Reply

    College jobs were never this much fun. Just illegal fronts for drug dealers and illegal alien smuggling rings. I mean Italian Restaurant server and Subway Sandwich artist. Memories…

  17. Centaur71
    November 1, 2017, 8:12 pm | # | Reply

    Just be thankful she’s not singing in Klingonese!

  18. Sealeaf
    November 5, 2017, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

    centaur–Give us time

  19. Bratty Roger
    December 30, 2017, 5:32 am | # | Reply

    😒Something tells me Nadette’s reaction would be pretty much the same if Atsali were singing
    (stereotypical)Country-Western songs as much as she’s singing the stuff she’s been singing at this job.

  20. Bratty Roger
    August 7, 2018, 3:59 pm | # | Reply

    Who is that girl on Atsali’s left?

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