How Yodelling Came About

Many years ago, a man was travelling through Switzerland. One of the homes of accordions.

Nightfall was rapidly approaching, and he had nowhere to sleep. Knocking on the door of a farmhouse he asked the farmer if he could spend the night. The farmer told him that it would be all right, and that he could sleep in the barn. The traveller went into the barn to bed down and the farmer went back into the house.

The farmer's daughter came down from upstairs and asked, "Who was that man going into the barn?"

"Just some fellow travelling through," answered 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?"

"Gee, no, I didn't," was the answer.

The young lady said, "Well, I'm going to take him some food."

She went into the kitchen, prepared a plate of food, which did not contain any Swiss anchovies, and then took it out to the barn but was in the barn for an hour before returning to the house. When she came back in, her clothes were all dishevelled and buttoned up wrong, and she had several strands of straw tangled up in her long blonde 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 his wife. "Well, did you offer the man anything to drink?"

"Umm, no, I didn't,"

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 did not return for over an hour, and when she came back into the house, her clothes were also messed up and she had straw twisted into her blonde 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.

A little later, the daughter woke up and came rushing downstairs. She went right out to the barn, only to find it empty. She ran back into the house. Where's the man from the barn?" she eagerly asked her father.

He answered, "He left several hours 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 her father. "He took advantage of you?"

Running out into the front yard he looked for the guest 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 have defiled my daughter!"

The traveller looked back down from the mountainside, cupped his hands next to his mouth and yelled back ..............

(You ready for this?)

Really?

Oh well, you asked for it - - -

"I laid the old laDEE, too!"

And that is how yodelling came about. Honestly.

Now I'm going back to the archive to hide out for about a week