# Casablanca trivia questions

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**Created:** [January 5, 2006, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casablanca-trivia-questions/338544 "2006-01-05T06:55:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casablanca-trivia-questions/338544/1 "2006-01-05T06:55:14Z")

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OK, I’ve watched Casablanca at least 30 times, and there are two bits that I would really like to know:

1. What is the name of the German song that the Germans are singing, that leads Victor to start up Le Marseillaise to drown them out? I assume it is some Nazi anthem, but maybe just a good old German folk song.

2. Sam starts to sing a song with the line " 'Cause my hair is curly", and then the scene cuts to something else and you hear a tiny bit more in the background. I know I have heard this before, but I can’t remember the name of the song. It drives me nuts every time.

So, learned ones, please put me out of my misery.

Roddy

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**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casablanca-trivia-questions/338544/2 "2006-01-05T06:56:36Z")

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Song: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Watch\_on\_the\_Rhine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watch_on_the_Rhine)

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**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casablanca-trivia-questions/338544/3 "2006-01-05T18:13:25Z")

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> [@Roderick Femm](#):
>
> OK, I’ve watched Casablanca at least 30 times, and there are two bits that I would really like to know:
> 
> 1. Sam starts to sing a song with the line " 'Cause my hair is curly", and then the scene cuts to something else and you hear a tiny bit more in the background. I know I have heard this before, but I can’t remember the name of the song. It drives me nuts every time.
> 
> So, learned ones, please put me out of my misery.
> 
> Roddy

I don’t remember it from the movie, but I recognize the lyric line, and a search of Casablanca soundtrack album listing confirms that the song is [Shine](http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/s/shine.shtml), a song which I doubt you would ever hear sung in today’s Politically Correct climate.