4/23/2025

Germany - Barbaras Rhabarberbar (Barbara's Rhubarb Bar)


Does this song sound familiar?
Some months ago "Barbara's Rhubarb Bar" went viral with people singing along, translating it into their languages and dancing away to its tune around the globe. Thus it became a fun and entertaining ambassador of the German language and culture.
The song plays with the specific characteristic of German which allows to construct compound nouns of infintite length by adding additional words like in "Rhabarber-Bar-Barbaren-Bart-Barbier-Barber-Shop" which is especially big fun with all the alliterations.

Our children love the lyrics by Bodo Wartke along with Marti Fischer's music who gave us permission to present their song in Schoolovision which we are very grateful for.

Enjoy the performance and dance with us if you like!

10 comments:

  1. Congrats to this entry! All the goodies are there, apart from rhubarb cake, juice and plants as well as barbaric barbers, there are happy kids singing and dancing, having a lot of fun and almost swallowing fire (hope no lips got burned). Well done Germany and good luck!

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  2. Perfect rhythm and happy children - an outstanding combination that may just win the prize! Good luck!

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  3. Greetings from Finland! This is how our children described your song:
    - The song was challenging, and you were brave with the fire!
    - The dances were beautiful.
    - Bravo, bravo!
    - I really liked the children’s voices.
    - The song was so fun!

    Congratulations, you are awesome!

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  4. Wow. Sich an diesen Song zu wagen ist wirklich mutig, den dann aber auch noch soooooo Hammer gut zu rappen ist wirklich unglaublich cool!!! Größten Respekt aus Österreich 👍👍👍👍

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  5. Sounds so fun and cool, good luck from Uzbekistan!

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  6. I loved the dance moves. Good luck.

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  7. very very nice. I like the sound and the video.

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  8. Very very good video . I like it.

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  9. Loved your entry, Steffen. Your students are amazing and so cute. Good luck from Malta.

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