This is a song by the Andrews Sisters, but does anyone knows what they say? 'schon' or 'schön'? for me it makes more sense the second one than the first one. Any ideas?
It´s "Bei mir bist du schön".
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andrews_Sisters
Some lyrics pages write it with an "o" because "ö" is rather unknown in English.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andrews_Sisters
Some lyrics pages write it with an "o" because "ö" is rather unknown in English.
Frank is right, in German it had to be spelled with "ö". But let me reiterate: It is not a German song, it is a Yiddish song. In spelling, it is often adapted to German because there is no standard spelling of Yiddish with Latin letters and the original title of the song (בייַ מיר ביסטו שיין where ביסטו is a colloquial contraction of ביסט דו) is hard to read for others.
See here for the history of the song.
See here for the history of the song.
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It sounds strange if you try to interpret the title as German (as there is no German idiom like "bei mir bist du schön"
).But as berndf said, it is not German - it is Yiddish.
The Andrews Sisters pronounce it in the Yiddish manner.
If you listen to their recording, they sing "shane" and rhyme it with "explain".
Bei mir bist du shane,
please let me explain,