> Have you ever wondered where and how yodeling began? Here's the true story.
> Honest.
> Back in the olden days, a man was traveling by foot through Switzerland.
> Nightfall was approaching, and the man had no where to sleep. He went up to
> a farmhouse and asked the farmer if he could spend the night. The farmer
> told him that he could sleep in the barn. So the man went into the barn to
> bed down, and the farmer went back into the house.
> As the story goes, the farmer's daughter (you knew this was coming, right?)
> came downstairs and asked her father, "Who was that man going into the barn?
> "That's some fellow just traveling through," said the farmer. "He needed a
> place to stay for the night, so I said that he could sleep in the barn."
> The daughter then asked, "Did you offer the man anything to eat?" "Um, no, I
> didn't," the farmer answered. The daughter said, "Well, I'm going to take him some food."
> She went to the kitchen, prepared a plate of food, and then took it out to
> the barn. An hour later she returned. Her clothes were all dishevelled and
> buttoned up wrong, and she had several strands of straw tangled up in her long blond hair.
> She immediately went up the stairs to her bedroom and went to sleep. A
> little later, the farmer's wife came down and asked her husband why their
> daughter went to bed so early. "I don't know," said the farmer. "I told a
> man that he could sleep in the barn, and our daughter took him some food."
> "Oh," replied the wife. "Well, did you offer the man anything to drink?"
> "Umm, no, I didn't," said the farmer.
> The wife then said, "I'm going to take something out there for him to
> drink." The wife went to the cellar, got a bottle of wine, then went out to
> the barn. She didn't return for over an hour, and when she did, her clothes
> were also messed up, and she had straw twisted into her blond hair. She went
> straight up the stairs and into bed.
> The next morning at sunrise, the man in the barn got up and continued on his
> journey, waving to the farmer as he left the farm and walked toward the mountain.
> A while later, the daughter woke up and came rushing downstairs. She went
> right out to the barn, only to find it empty. She went to her father and
> said "Where's the man from the barn?"
> Father answered, "He left several minutes ago." "What?" she cried. "He left
> without saying good-bye? After all we had together? I mean, last night he
> made such passionate love to me."
> "What?" shouted the father. The farmer ran into the yard looking for the
> man, but by now the man was halfway up the side of the mountain. The farmer
> screamed up at him, "I'm gonna get you! You had sex with my daughter."
> The man looked back down from the mountainside, cupped his hands next to his
> mouth, and yelled out,....... ILAIDTHEOLADEETOO...
> And that's the true origin of yodelling-honest |
