Karawane
by Hugo Ball
14th july 1916
jolifanto bambla ô falli bambla
grossiga m'pfa habla horem
égiga goramen
higo bloiko russula huju
hollaka hollala
anlogo bung
blago bung
blago bung
bosso fataka
ü üü ü
schampa wulla wussa ólobo
hej tatta gôrem
eschige zunbada
wulubu ssubudu uluw ssubudu
tumba ba-umf
kusagauma
ba-umf
To appreciate it, you really have to hear it; and nobody has ever done it better than Marie Osmond. The poem, of course, is all nonsense; Hugo Ball was one of the better Dadaist poets, although, over all, his wife, Emmy Hennings, was probably superior.
