Oktoberfest drinking song

about every 20 minutes the brass band plays a quick drinking song and everyone hold up their beer. at the end it goes %26quot;Eins … zwei … g%26#39;suffa!%26quot; What are the words to the rest of the song?

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Ein prosit,, Ein prosit,, Gemuchlicheit, etc.. (repeat)

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this sons is called %26quot;in münchen steht ein hofbräuhaus%26quot;

(in munich there is a hofbräuhaus), and the complete words can be found here:

http://ingeb.org/Lieder/inmunche.html

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thanks, i though it was ein prosit so that%26#39;s what i was singing and my friend try to tell me i was wrong.

what does Gemuchlicheit translate to?

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Gemütlichkeit.

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Friendly surroundings, good-natured companions, feelings of good cheer...not precisely a dictionary definition, but you get the picture (how you felt when singing the beer-drinking songs, maybe?) ;-)

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-Easy going-

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If you were in the Hofbräu tent, it could have been %26quot;In München Steht ein Hofbräuhaus

einz, zwei, g%26#39;sufa!

The song goes on for a few verses.

The other one - shorter - could be sung at any tent

Ein prosit, ein prosit, der Gemütlichkeit

(repeat)

then %26quot;Einz! Zwei! G%26#39;sufa!

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Gemuchlikeit does not really translate well into English, should you ask a Bavarian.. However, this is pretty clse: Friendly surroundings, good-natured companions, feelings of good cheer.... as described earlier. One more word or phrase that is close to what it means %26quot;unofficially%26quot; would be %26quot;we%26#39;re all friends, leave your stress miles away%26quot;...

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