Yes, writing and reading.

“Yes, writing and reading.”

 

Yes, writing and reading
It’s never been my business,
because since childhood.
I deal with pigs;
also i was never a poet
Potzdonnerwetter Paraplui,
always pig breeders,
I was never poetic!

Yes my ideal purpose in life
is bristly pig, is pork bacon,
my ideal purpose in life,
is bristly pig, and pork bacon,
is bristly pig, and pork bacon.

Yes to pig fattening
I understand myself best,
all over my camp
is not a skinny one either:
i own five thousand healthy
pretty nice round pigs,
as far as you seek, far and near’,
you didn’t see any pretty ones;
As you see me in all the land,
I am well known far and wide,
I’m just called a pig prince.

Yes, my ideal purpose in life
is bristle pig, is pork bacon,
my ideal pig and pork bacon,
is bristly pig and pork bacon.

 

(from “Der Zigeunerbaron” by J. Strauss)