The real dance moves you need for Oktoberfest
No matter what lazy travel writers want you to believe, there’s no Chicken Dance at Oktoberfest in Munich. If anyone tries to tell you otherwise, stop taking their travel advice immediately, lest you start looking like an arm-flapping fool everywhere you go. Instead, spend your Oktoberfest prep time (only a week to go!) learning these dances, which are sure to come in handy in each and every tent.
Cowboy und Indianer: The first time I heard this song I felt like the Germans had misappropriated my culture. What’s up with Germans playing cowboys and Indians? That’s our game! Anyways, my outrage was quickly forgotten when I learned the adorable dance moves, which are perfect for doing while standing on a bench drunk.
Here’s a rough translation of the lyrics being acted out:
Get your lasso out
Let’s play cowboys and Indians
We’ll ride our horses without resting or having a goal of any sort really
You’ve got me surrounded so I’ll give myself up and you can tie me to a giant pole
Come on get out your lasso, it will be like the very first time (wink wink nudge nudge)
The final move is usually a bit more suggestive than this video would have you believe, but the rest of the moves are more or less on target.
Fliegerlied (Heut is so a schöner Tag): This one is equally adorable, and easy to do while inebriated.
The applicable lyrics:
And I fly, fly, fly like an airplane
I’m strong, strong, strong like a tiger
And so tall, tall, tall like a giraffe
So hiiiiiiiigh
And I jump, jump, jump up and down
And I swim, swim, swim over to you
And I take, take, take you by the hand,
Because I like you
And I say, today is such a lovely day. la la la la la
If you’re sitting there scoffing at the low degree of difficulty of the preceding dances, you could always learn some schuhplattler moves.
It was on the regular playlist a few times each Saturday night.
