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The polka went to the world very soon. In 1938, Will Glahé sold one million copies of its German version ''Rosamunde'' and got a Gold Album for it. Shapiro Bernstein published the song under the name of Beer Barrel Polka a year later. The authors of English lyrics were Lew Brown and Wladimir Timm . Meanwhile, the song was played also by many others, for example Andrews Sisters , Glenn Miller Orchestra , Benny Goodman or Billie Holiday . During World War II , versions in many other languages were created and the song was popular among Soldier s of most of armies, despite of the side where they fought. It was claimed many times that the song was written in the country where it just became a Hit . A real author became world wide known as late as after the war. A former Foreign Minister Of Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher even made a bet that it was a German song. He lost. ENGLISH LYRICS There's a garden, what a garden, Only happy faces bloom there And there's never any room there For a worry or a gloom there. Oh! there's music and there's dancing And a lot of sweet romancing When they play a polka They all get in the swing: Ev'ry time they hear that oom-pa-pa Ev'rybody feels so tra-la-la They want to throw their cares away They all go lah-de-ah-de-ay, Then they hear a rumble on the floor It's the big surprise they're waiting for And all the couples form a ring For miles around you'll hear them sing Chorus: Roll out the barrel We'll have a barrel of fun Roll out the barrel We've got the blues on the run. Zing! Boom! Ta-ra-rel Ring out a song of good cheer! Now's the time to roll the barrel For the gang's all here. ORIGINAL CZECH LYRICS Kvetou růže, kdo ti za to může, žádný ti už dneska nepomůže, kvetou, vadnou, lístečky z ní spadnou jak ty slzy tvoje na tu trávu chladnou. Chorus: Škoda lásky, kterou jsem tobě dala, ty mé oči dnes bych si vyplakala, moje mládí uprchlo tak jako sen, na všechno mi zbyla jenom v srdci mém vzpomínka jen. Translation The roses bloom, who is responsible for it? Nobody helps you today anymore. They bloom, fade, leaflets fall from it like those your tears on the cold grass. Chorus: Wasted love, which I gave you. I would cry my eyes today out, my younghood ran away as a dream. Only a memory remained in my heart for all of this. NAMES IN OTHER LANGUAGES
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