Thursday, January 5, 2012

Wuxi China Expat band recording of an English Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) Song sells 88 billion copies

The latest recording of the New Harry Callahan Experience, featuring Andis Kaulins on shotgun bass:  the English Language song "The Eight Days of Spring Festival" has already sold over 88 billion copies.

Wuxi Expat Harry Callahan, said that he and his band, were having beers one night with Wuxi China Expatdom Poet Laureate Alfred Lord McClusky, and were lamenting the lack of good Lunar New Year's song in English.  Said Callahan: "I guess you could say that we served as Lord McClusky's muse for the evening!  McClusky, when presented with our problem, immediately went deep into thought or some sort of muse-seeking trance.  Some local English teaching yahoos then started singing four thousand bottles of beer on the wall causing El Presidente Kaulins to ask why they didn't do a Christmas countdown song like the twelve days of Christmas.  Lord McClusky became very animated and ran to the bathroom to find some toilet paper to write on.  And he came up with the Eight days of Spring Festival.  Hans Killinger immediately composed the music after similarly going into a muse-seeking trance, and the result was our hit song!"

Callahan said the moment was something to behold. "It was quite the thing for me to be witness to the creative process at work.  It was like being a fly on the wall when they wrote the wonderful U.S. constitution!"

Here are the lyrics for the song:

On the first day of Spring Festival

my true love gave to me

Money in a red envelope!


On the second day of Spring Festival

my true love gave to me

Two bottles of Baijoe,

and money in a red envelope!


On the third day of Spring Festival

my true love gave to me

Three cartons of cigarettes,

Two bottles of Baijoe,

and money in a red envelope!


On the fourth day of Spring Festival

my true love gave to me

Four chicken's feet,

Three cartons of cigarettes,

Two bottles of Baijoe,

and money in a red envelope!


On the fifth day of Spring Festival

my true love gave to me

Five sets of new clothes,

Four chicken's feet,

Three cartons of cigarettes,

Two bottles of Baijoe,

and money in a red envelope!


On the sixth day of Spring Festival

my true love gave to me

Six sets of quilting,

Five sets of new clothes,

Four chicken's feet,

Three cartons of cigarettes,

Two bottles of Baijoe,

and money in a red envelope!


On the seventh day of Spring Festival

my true love gave to me

Seven fireworks a-bursting,

Six sets of quilting,

Five sets of new clothes,

Four chicken's feet,

Three cartons of cigarettes,

Two bottles of Baijoe,

and money in a red envelope!


On the eighth day of Spring Festival

my true love gave to me

Eight dragons dancing,

Seven fireworks a-bursting,

Six sets of quilting,

Five sets of new clothes,

Four chicken's feet,

Three cartons of cigarettes,

Two bottles of Baijoe,

and money in a red envelope!

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