Hillbilly Ecosystem Hog Roast
This weekend the Hillbilly Ecosystem is holding a Hillbilly Hog Roast which is the redneck version of a blogburst or blog carnival. Each of the Hillbillies is going to post their favorite Hillbilly song. Lemuel, the host of the Hog Roast, suggested that the official Hillbilly Ecosystem song could be picked by writing them on note cards and see which song my transexual chicks pecked at most.
Now, as I pointed out to Lemuel, I'm not a southerner and feel kind of out of place but Lem reminded me that you can't get much further south than South Africa. Also, since I've been declared an honorary Mississippian by one blogger and an honorary Louisianian by another blogger, I feel quite at home.
After all, I'm a South African redneck and have been called a redneck all my life but redneck means something slightly different in South Africa. Redneck in Afrikaans is "rooinek" - literally redneck. Here's how that word came to be used in South Africa.
During the Second Boer War, Britain sent 500,000 redcoats to crush 90,000 Afrikaner Boers. For three years, the Boers fought a guerrilla war against the British. The British ultimately succeeded in breaking this resistance by adopting a scorched-earth policy. In 1901 and 1902, the British torched more than 30,000 farms in the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and placed all the Afrikaner women and children in the world's first "concentration camps," where, because of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions, more than 25,000 Afrikaner women and children died.
(You can read more about this in my essay, "Why the Afrikaners hate the British," and you can read more about the world's first concentration camps here.)
Anyway, to cut a long story short, the Afrikaners noticed that the British soldiers all got badly sunburned and that their necks were always red - hence redneck or "rooinek." To this day Afrikaners call the British "rooineks." And the Brits look down their noses at the Afrikaners and call them "skaaps" which is the Afrikaans word for sheep.
Since the Boer War, the Afrikaners hate the British and vice versa and it was unusual up until recently for them to intermarry or even socialize but my mother was an Afrikaner and my father was of British descent. I was raised as an Afrikaner and my first language was Afrikaans so the British called me a "skaap." But, because my father was British, the Afrikaners called me a "rooinek.
Here's my "rooinek" song:
AG PLEEZ DEDDY
(This is a South African classic from the 1960s and is as close to an "official" rooinek song as you can get. The single sold more copies in South Africa than any of Elvis Presley's. I thought of changing some of the words but I added a glossary instead.)
Ag* pleez Deddy won't you take us to the drive-in;
All six, seven of us, eight, nine, ten.
We wanna see a flick about
Tarzan an' the Ape-men
An' when the show is over you can bring us back again.
Chorus
Ag Pleez Deddy won't you take us to the fun-fair;
We wanna have a ride on the bumper-cars.
We'll buy a stick of candy floss*
And eat it on the Octopus;
Then we'll take the rocket ship that goes to Mars.
Chorus
Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling
We wanna see an ou* called Sky High Lee.
When he fights Willie Liebenberg
There's gonna be a murder.
He's gonna catch a klap* from Willie's knobkierrie.*
Chorus
Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us off to Durban;
It's only eight hours in the Chevro-lay.
There's spans of sea an' sand an' sun
And fish in the aquari-yum.
That's a lekker* place for a holi-day
Chorus
Ag sis Deddy if we can't kraak* to bioscope*
Or go off to Durban, life's a heng of a bore.
If you won't take us to the zoo
Then what the heck else can we do
But go on out and moere* all the oukies* next door.
Chorus:
Popcorn, chewing gum, peanuts an' bubble gum
Ice cream, candy floss an' Eskimo Pie.
Ag Deddy how we miss
Nigger-balls* an' licorice
Pepsi Cola, ginger beer
and Canada Dry.
Ag Pleez Deddy - VOETSEK!*
Many Afrikaans word entered the English language, i.e. veld and boer.
Ag! = The same as the German and Dutch "ach."
candy floss = cotton candy.
ou, oukie = chap, bloke, dude.
klap = punch, hit, slap.
knobkierrie = a wooden club with a large knob on the end adopted from the Zulus who used them as fighting sticks. (There is a play on words here too coarse to describe in a family-friendly blog. Many an Afrikaner had his skull smashed in by Zulus wielding knobkerries.)
lekker = nice.
kraak = here it means "mosey off to."
bioscope = movie theater.
moere = murder, slaughter.
Nigger-balls = huge brown anise flavored candy balls which were sometimes called gobstoppers. One lasted all day if you sucked it and didn't chew it. (I thought of changing this word because it is now politically incorrect but I left it in the interests of historical and cultural accuracy. Nigger was not used much in South Africa where the equivalent insulting term was "kafir," a word which the British got from the Arabs. Well, in the eyes of the Mahomedanazis, we're all Kafirs now.)
Voetsek! = bugger off!
Below is a picture of a board-game, "Boer en Rooinek."
Now, as I pointed out to Lemuel, I'm not a southerner and feel kind of out of place but Lem reminded me that you can't get much further south than South Africa. Also, since I've been declared an honorary Mississippian by one blogger and an honorary Louisianian by another blogger, I feel quite at home.
After all, I'm a South African redneck and have been called a redneck all my life but redneck means something slightly different in South Africa. Redneck in Afrikaans is "rooinek" - literally redneck. Here's how that word came to be used in South Africa.
During the Second Boer War, Britain sent 500,000 redcoats to crush 90,000 Afrikaner Boers. For three years, the Boers fought a guerrilla war against the British. The British ultimately succeeded in breaking this resistance by adopting a scorched-earth policy. In 1901 and 1902, the British torched more than 30,000 farms in the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and placed all the Afrikaner women and children in the world's first "concentration camps," where, because of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions, more than 25,000 Afrikaner women and children died.
(You can read more about this in my essay, "Why the Afrikaners hate the British," and you can read more about the world's first concentration camps here.)
Anyway, to cut a long story short, the Afrikaners noticed that the British soldiers all got badly sunburned and that their necks were always red - hence redneck or "rooinek." To this day Afrikaners call the British "rooineks." And the Brits look down their noses at the Afrikaners and call them "skaaps" which is the Afrikaans word for sheep.
Since the Boer War, the Afrikaners hate the British and vice versa and it was unusual up until recently for them to intermarry or even socialize but my mother was an Afrikaner and my father was of British descent. I was raised as an Afrikaner and my first language was Afrikaans so the British called me a "skaap." But, because my father was British, the Afrikaners called me a "rooinek.
Here's my "rooinek" song:
AG PLEEZ DEDDY
(This is a South African classic from the 1960s and is as close to an "official" rooinek song as you can get. The single sold more copies in South Africa than any of Elvis Presley's. I thought of changing some of the words but I added a glossary instead.)
Ag* pleez Deddy won't you take us to the drive-in;
All six, seven of us, eight, nine, ten.
We wanna see a flick about
Tarzan an' the Ape-men
An' when the show is over you can bring us back again.
Chorus
Ag Pleez Deddy won't you take us to the fun-fair;
We wanna have a ride on the bumper-cars.
We'll buy a stick of candy floss*
And eat it on the Octopus;
Then we'll take the rocket ship that goes to Mars.
Chorus
Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling
We wanna see an ou* called Sky High Lee.
When he fights Willie Liebenberg
There's gonna be a murder.
He's gonna catch a klap* from Willie's knobkierrie.*
Chorus
Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us off to Durban;
It's only eight hours in the Chevro-lay.
There's spans of sea an' sand an' sun
And fish in the aquari-yum.
That's a lekker* place for a holi-day
Chorus
Ag sis Deddy if we can't kraak* to bioscope*
Or go off to Durban, life's a heng of a bore.
If you won't take us to the zoo
Then what the heck else can we do
But go on out and moere* all the oukies* next door.
Chorus:
Popcorn, chewing gum, peanuts an' bubble gum
Ice cream, candy floss an' Eskimo Pie.
Ag Deddy how we miss
Nigger-balls* an' licorice
Pepsi Cola, ginger beer
and Canada Dry.
Ag Pleez Deddy - VOETSEK!*
Many Afrikaans word entered the English language, i.e. veld and boer.
Ag! = The same as the German and Dutch "ach."
candy floss = cotton candy.
ou, oukie = chap, bloke, dude.
klap = punch, hit, slap.
knobkierrie = a wooden club with a large knob on the end adopted from the Zulus who used them as fighting sticks. (There is a play on words here too coarse to describe in a family-friendly blog. Many an Afrikaner had his skull smashed in by Zulus wielding knobkerries.)
lekker = nice.
kraak = here it means "mosey off to."
bioscope = movie theater.
moere = murder, slaughter.
Nigger-balls = huge brown anise flavored candy balls which were sometimes called gobstoppers. One lasted all day if you sucked it and didn't chew it. (I thought of changing this word because it is now politically incorrect but I left it in the interests of historical and cultural accuracy. Nigger was not used much in South Africa where the equivalent insulting term was "kafir," a word which the British got from the Arabs. Well, in the eyes of the Mahomedanazis, we're all Kafirs now.)
Voetsek! = bugger off!
Below is a picture of a board-game, "Boer en Rooinek."
posted by Joubert at 9:47 AM
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