Schadenfreude (pronounced: shah-den-freud) is that amazing word from German that refers to the pleasure one gets from the misfortune of others.
The recent event at the Hollywood Bowl where 18,000 people sang along with the Sound of Music has inspired me to document a poem/song that I wrote in NY after some particularly spectacular and bloody incident between senior vice presidents at Viacom in the mid-1990s.
It is to the tune of Edelweiss from The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Schadenfreude! Schadenfreude!
Its a pleasure to beat you.
Black and blue,
I told you
Its a pleasure to hurt you!
(with feeling)
Down the toilet your career will go!
Career will go!
Forever!
(slowly and with wistfulness)
Schadenfreude, Schadenfreude.
Its a pleasure to hurt you.
(c) MW 1995 all rights reserved
A picture of Christopher Plummer as Captain George Ritter von Trapp singing Edelweiss.
The post about the "Sing-A-Long Sound of Music":
http://globalwahrman.blogspot.com/2012/09/sing-long-sound-of-music.html
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