Pennsylvania Dutch Rip Van Winkle: A romantic drama in two actsIrving, Washington
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Pennsylvania Dutch Rip Van Winkle: A romantic drama in two acts
Irving, Washington
Fantasy drama; Pennsylvania German dialect -- Texts; Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character) -- Drama
_Vedd._ Well, don, wann ’d net wid, ei don du ona.
[_All go to the table but RIP._
_Rip._ Desmohl hob gaprooft os ich mich selwer regulata con--os ich net
back gæ up my aid os ich g’shwora hob, und now, sell, denk ich, entitled
mich tzu eme droonk anyhow.
[_Goes to the table._
_Omnes._ Ha, ha, ha!
_Rory._ Doh, Rip, doh is ’n glaws, un ich insures os ’s aw ’s recht
shtuft is.
[_Gives him a glass._
_Rip._ Awer now mind--dar droonk doh tzailt now net, un doh gaits tzum
deifel und de fomelia tzu ’m deifel un aw g’sundheit un longs lava for
eich all! Immer un eawich, awer wass sawgt now my olty wann ich hame coom?
_Vedd. & Rory._ Ha, ha, ha! Coom now, sing amohl anes.
_Rip._ Well, doh gaits don--a warning tzu leit os noch leddich sin.
SONG.--RIP.
List, my friends, to caution’s voice,
Ere de marriage knot you tie;
It is the devil, mit shkrews to shplice,
Dat nobody can deny, deny,
Dat nobody can deny.
_Chorus._--Dat nobody can deny, &c.
When a wife to rule once wishes,
Mit poor spouse ’tis all my eye,
I’m d----d if she don’t wear de breeches,
Dat nobody can deny, deny,
Dat nobody can deny.
_Chorus._--Dat nobody can deny, &c.
Yet dere is a charm about dem,
Do dere voices are so high
We can’t do mit ’em. (_Pause._
Nor we can’t do mit out em,
Dat nobody can deny, deny,
Dat nobody can deny.
_Chorus._--Dat nobody can deny, &c.
_Dame._ [_without R. I. E._] Rip! Rip! Wann ich dich now ferwish don
ferluss dich druf os ’d ’s aw fongsht!
_Rip._ Gott in himmel! Sell is my olty!
_Dame._ (_without_) Rip! Du fowlenser, Rip!
_Rip._ [_Gets under the table with bottle._] Look out, boova--de will-colz
coom’d!
MUSIC.--_VEDDER, RORY and CLAUSIN, at table.--Enter DAME, with
stick. R. U. E._
_Dame._ Wo der dihenker is my nix-nootzicha lodle fum a mon? Shweffle un
solpater! Hurrich! Ich hare si shtimm--der hen’d ’n arryats fershteckled.
Der set eich shemma, ’n mon den waig fun siner fraw un fomelia weck tzu
nemma! Der d’ut all uf mich imposa weil der wist os ich goot g’noddoord
bin--so ich ne net base wær. [_They laugh._] Awer mind now, de shwarnoat
will ich krega wann ich eich net uf ’m onner side fum maul laucha mauch!
[_Music--Chases them round the table--they exit L. and R. DAME
upsets table and discovers RIP._
_Dame._ Oh du shlechter, meaner loadle du! Now, wass husht tzu sawga, du
weshty drecksow?
_Rip._ Doh gaits now--all tzum deifel--du un de fomelia un g’sundheit for
se all!
_Dame._ [_Pulling him down the stage by the ear._] Ich bin net base. Ich
bin keel, un goot g’noddoor’d. Awer so we du mich treatsht con ich net
shtanda. Un now, du loadle, gaisht mer grawd hame. Awer sawg mer now de
wohret--was husht heit gadu der gons dawg?
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