Roll Out The Barrel (The Barrel Polka)

Roll Out The Barrel (The B.Barrel Polka) is a song which became popular worldwide during World War II. The music was composed by the Czech musician Jaromír Vejvoda in 1927. Eduard Ingriš wrote the first arrangement of the piece, after Vejvoda came upon the melody and sought Ingriš's help in refining it. At that time, it was played without lyrics as "Modřanská polka" ("Polka of Modřany"). Its first text was written later (in 1934) by Václav Zeman – with the title "Škoda lásky" ("Wasted Love").

The Wiggles sing this song on Sailing Around the World.

Song Lyrics
Greg: There's a garden, what a garden Only happy faces bloom there And there's never any room For a worry or a gloom Manzillas: There's music, and there's dancing And a lot of polka prancing Greg:When they play the polka They all get in the swing Manzillas: Everytime you hear that oom-pah-pah everbody feels so tra-la-la-la Greg: They only want to come back for one thing They crowd around and sing trolly-olly-ay Manzillas: And you hear that rumble on the floor

It's a big (ha ha ha ha) surprise you're waiting for Manzillas: Then all at once everybody, everybody, forms a ring For miles around, you'll hear them sing

Greg:Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun Roll out the barrel, we've got the blues on the run Zing boom terrara Join in a glass of good cheer Now it's time to roll the barrel Manzillas:For the gang's all here

Trivia

 * The Wiggles wrote some of their own lyrics.
 * The instrumental track for this song is played on TV Series 4 Bloopers.
 * The song is adapted from Modranska Polka, which was composed by Jaromir Vejvoda. Vaclav Zeman is credited in all albums releases of Sailing Around the World, but he didn't write the English lyrics, which are used in this song.