Explanatory note: I’m so fed up with English singers singing in an American
Accent, I thought just for once, the tables could be turned! Chris.
Original: “Well I woke up this morning and the blues came walking in the room”
OBM: “On rising today I felt frightfully ill, that damnable cad Bonko slipped me a Mickey Finn, just to keep me away from Gloria at the Charity Gala Ball!”
Original: “Well I had the blues this morning and all through the afternoon!”
OBM: “ Had the most damnable headache from the time I got up and then the trots started, so damned inconvenient, I was hoping for a round of golf with Archie this afternoon!”
Original: “Well they call it stormy Monday but Tuesday is just the same!”
OBM: “Absolutely rotten weather we are having! Thank God for umbrella’s and handkerchiefs!”
Original: “And when it come round to Wednesday, I feel the same again!”
OMB: “Three days of rain, it’s enough to send one Toots up the Maypole!”
Original: “Thursday, I slept through all day, didn’t wake up till Saturday”
OBM: “Felt so jolly depressed I took one of Bonko’s sleeping draughts, damn thing put me in Cocoa land till Saturday!”
Original: “Sundays my day of rest I just had to pray!”
OBM: “Must have a word with the vicar after Matins about this damnable run of bad luck!”
Very good excellent German vocabulary