Beer Barrel Polka - The Song Playing on the Gramophone (1)

The song that plays in the gramophone is a song known in the United States as "Beer Barrel Polka" or "Roll Out the Barrel", which was popular worldwide during WWII. The music was originally written by Czech musician  Jaromir Vejvoda in 1927. The first text was written in 1934 as a love song called Škoda lásky, which means "wasted love".

Jaromir Vejvoda

The song had spread to other countries due to the Nazi German occupation in Czechoslovakia, of which resulted in the emigration of thousands of Czechs to many parts of the world. During the war, other versions in other languages had been created and become a popular song among soldiers, regardless of their parties. With the rapid widespread each countries where the song became popular had claimed that their version is the original one. Therefore, its actual composer was not widely known until after the war.

The old man introduced the girls his gramophone

The following is the name of the song in other languages:

Basque: Gora ta gora beti         
Chinese: 啤酒桶波尔卡/啤酒桶波爾卡
Croatian: Rozamunda               
Czech: Škoda lásky
Danish: Hvor er min Kone       
Dutch: Rats, kuch en bonen
Finnish: Tonttujen joulupolkka   
French: Frida oum Papa
German: Rosamunde                
Hungarian: Se Preview j-haj Rozi
Italian: Rosamunda                  
Japanese: Biya daru polka
Norwegian: Hvor er min kone                           
Polish: Banda or My młodzi, my młodzi, nam bimber nie zaszkodzi.../Szkoda miłości
Portuguese (Brazil): Barril de chope                   
Russian: Розамунда
Spanish: Polka del Barril/Polca de la Cerveza or Barrilito
Swedish: Ut i naturen

In US version, the song was recorded and played by many famous musicians such as Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman and Bobby Vinton.

Beer Barrel Polka (1975)

there's a garden, what a garden
only happy faces bloom there
And there's never any room there
For a worry or gloom there


Oh there's music and there's dancing
And a lot of sweet romancing
When they play the polka
They all get in the swing

Every time they hear that oom-pa-pa
Everybody feels so tra-la-la
They want to throw their cares away
En luk ah vas que va

Then they hear 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

Roll out the barrel
We'll have the barrel of fun
Roll out the barrel
We've got the blues on the run

Sing Boom tararrel
sing out the song of good cheer
now's the time to roll the barrel
cause the gang's all here

la la la la la
hey hey hey
la la la la la
hey hey hey

now's the time to roll the barrel
cause the gang's all here

la la la la la
hey hey hey