A jolly tune from Switzerland

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This is a tune my mother taught me!  It apparently isn’t as well known today as it was several decades ago.  I played it for my wife, and she says it definitely sounds very Alpine, and she can almost imagine some fellows in Lederhosen and feathers in their hats furiously playing it on their brass instruments, but she had never heard it before.

It is called Weggis Song, and the first line goes: “Von Luzern auf Weggis zu, Hul-di-ri-di-ya hul-di-ri-ya!”  Most of the song is “Hul - dee - ree - dee-ya, huldiri deeya hudiriya!”  The song is intended for yodeling, of all things, so these are just nonsense syllables.  We were supposed to sing the tune very fast, to make the yodeling more effective.


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