Wayne Newton – Danke Shoen: “Danke schön” is German for “thank you very much.” The polite response is “bitte schön” or “bitte sehr”.
Danke Shoen was first recorded in 1962 by Bert Kaempfert. However, it got popular a year later when Wayne Newton recorded it (this was news to me– I always thought it was a woman singing!), then again in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when Matthew Broderick lip synced it on a parade float.
Wayne Newton – Danke Shoen
Danke schoen, darling, danke schoen
Thank you for all the joy and pain
Picture show, second balcony, was the place we’d meet
Second seat, go dutch treat, you were sweet
Danke schoen, darling, danke schoen
Save those lies, darling don’t explain
I recall Central Park in fall
How you tore your dress, what a mess, I confess
That’s not all
Danke schoen, darling, danke schoen
Thank you for walks down Lover’s Lane
I can see, hearts carved on a tree
Letters intertwined, for all time
Yours and mine, that was fine
Danke schoen, darling, danke schoen
Thank you for seeing me again
Though we go on our separate ways
Still the memory stays, for always
My heart says, “Danke schoen”
Danke schoen, oh darling, danke schoen
I said, thank you for seeing me again
Though we go on our separate ways
Still the memory stays, for always
My heart says, “Danke schoen”
Danke schoen
Auf wiedersehen
Danke schoen
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