I’ve seen several parodies of this song at the beginning of this cartoon. Does anybody know the name of the original song?
It sounds like a variation of “Twinkle, twinkle little star” “Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman”, Mozart .
They seem to have blended the bridge from Der Fuehrer’s Face into the “Twinkle Twinkle” variation.
Do you mean the opening theme, the A-B-C vamp, or (as I suspect) the song sung by the class, which is called “Schnitzelbank”? You can read about that here:
The "Schnitzelbank" is a simple song, popular primarily with German Americans.
Schnitzelbank literally means "scrap bench" or "chip bench" (from Schnitzel "scraps / clips / cuttings (from carving)" or the colloquial verb schnitzeln "to make scraps" or "to carve" and Bank "bench"); like the Bank, it is feminine and takes the article "die". It is a woodworking tool used in Germany prior to the industrial revolution. It was in regular use in colonial New England, and in the Appalachian region until...
Sam_A.Robrin:
Do you mean the opening theme, the A-B-C vamp, or (as I suspect) the song sung by the class, which is called “Schnitzelbank”? You can read about that here:
Schnitzelbank - Wikipedia
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I meant the song the class was singing. Thanks.
