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I bin dei Apfel, du mein Stamm.

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

My Viennese friends introduced me to Rainhard Fendrich's moving ballad "I Am From Austria," a kind of unofficial national anthem, which apparently is also a classic and inevitable party foul. At some point during any given Austrian party, someone is guaranteed to put it on, bumming everybody out. I particularly like the line, "I am your apple, and you my stem."

As a counterpoint, here's Die Prinzen's slightly more irreverent tribute to their homeland, "Deutschland":