Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus (Max Raabe, Palast Orchester) | Live in Berlin (Part 15/32)

From the concert "Live in Berlin" at the Berlin Waldbühne: Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester perform "Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus". Enjoy Raabe's charming interpretations of mostly German-speaking 1920s and 30s classics, as well as his humorous song introductions.
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René Dorian / Hans Herda - Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus (Max Raabe, Palast Orchester)
Lyrics:
Blumen im Garten, so zwanzig Arten
Von Rosen, Tulpen und Narzissen
Leisten sich heute die feinen Leute
Das will ich alles gar nicht wissen
Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus
Steht draußen am Balkon
Hollari, hollari, hollaro
Was brauch' ich rote Rosen?
Was brauch' ich roten Mohn?
Hollari, hollari, hollaro
Und wenn ein Bösewicht
Was Ungezogenes spricht
Dann hol' ich meinen Kaktus
Und der sticht, sticht, sticht
Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus
Steht draußen am Balkon
Hollari, hollari, hollaro
Heute um viere
Klopft's an die Türe
Nanu, Besuch so früh am Tage?
Es war Herr Krause
Vom Nachbarhause
Er sagt: „Verzeihen Sie, wenn ich frage...
Sie haben doch einen Kaktus
Da draußen am Balkon?"
Hollari, hollari, hollaro
"Der fiel soeben runter
Was halten Sie davon?"
Hollari, hollari, hollaro
"Er fiel mir aufs Gesicht
Ob S's glauben oder nicht
Dann weiß ich, dass ihr kleiner grüner Kaktus sticht!
Bewahren Sie Ihren Kaktus
Gefälligst anderswo!"
Hollari, hollari, hollaro
About Max Raabe Live in Berlin
On a Sunday evening in August in the Berliner Waldbühne around 20,000 people with rain gear and blankets held thousands of colorful umbrellas while listening to Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester’s hits of the 1920s and 30s. As the most exquisite interpreter of these tunes, Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester play them with such precision, jovial vitality and utter perfection that the 80-year-old songs sound as fresh and lively as they did when first performed.
They therefore aren’t simply remakes, but wonderful new interpretations which reveal the timeless modernity of these brilliant works. The people of Berlin have had to wait one and a half years for the return of their Palast Orchester. The tour in which they performed for excited audiences all over the world included concerts in New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, Rome, Paris and Moscow.
Directed by Henning Kasten
2006, EuroArts Music International, RBB, BR/ARTE