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Have you ever wondered where and how yodeling began?
Have you ever wondered where and how yodeling began?
Many years ago a man was traveling through the mountains of Switzerland.
Nightfall was rapidly approaching and he had nowhere to sleep. He went
up to farmhouse and asked the farmer if he could spend the night. The
farmer told him that he could sleep in the barn.
As the story goes, the farmer's daughter came down from upstairs and
asked her father, "Who was that man going into the barn?"
"That's some fellow traveling through," said the farmer. "He needed
place to stay for the night, so I said that he could sleep in the
barn."
The daughter said, "Perhaps he is hungry." So she prepared him a plate
of food and took it out to the barn. About an hour later, the daughter
returned, her clothing disheveled and straw in her hair. Straight up to bed
she went.
The farmer's wife was very observant. She then suggested that perhaps
the man was thirsty. So she fetched a bottle of wine, took it out to
the barn, and she too did not return for an hour. Her clothing was askew,
her blouse buttoned incorrectly and her hair all messed up. She also headed
straight to bed.
The next morning at sunrise the man in the barn got up and continued on
his journey, waving to the farmer as he left. When the daughter awoke
and learned that the visitor was gone, she broke into tears.
"How could he leave without even saying bye," she cried, "after we made
such passionate love last night?"
"What?" shouted the father and angrily ran out of the house looking for
the man, who by now was halfway up the mountain. The farmer screamed
up at him; "I'm gonna get you! You had sex with my daughter!"
The man looked back down from the mountainside, cupped his hand next to
his mouth, and yelled out,
"LAIDTHEOLDLADEETOO!"
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