The Czech Roll.

my love for this video is well known. I put it here as a reminder to me to watch it again.

Unknowns:

• What is the name of that dance?
• What kind of mouth-tuba is that?
• Why does a man come onto the screen and blow onto a pane of glass?
• How can it be called "Czech Roll'd" when it is clearly a pleasure to watch?

English Translation [via nikokaojabg in youtube comments]

I'm driving in a Skoda 100 to camp in Orava
Because I'm in a hurry, I risk crossing Moravia
A monster prowls around there, it comes out of the swamp
It mainly eats people from Prague, and it's called Joe

Joe Swamp creeps through the bogs
Joe Swamp approaches the village
Joe Swamp is sharpening? his teeth
Joe Swamp bites and strangles
Who'dve thought that the way to deal with Joe Swamp
The only thing that works is a plane with white powder

I was driving through a village on the road to Vizovice
I met the village elder who told me over some slivovice
"Whoever brings me Joe, dead or? alive,
Shall have my daughter and half the collective farm"

Joe Swamp creeps through the bogs
Joe Swamp approaches the village
Joe Swamp is sharpening his teeth
Joe Swamp bites and strangles
Who'dve thought that the way to deal with Joe Swamp
The only thing that works is a plane with white powder

I say, "Chief, give me the plane and the powder
I'll give you Joe, no problem"
The Elder agreed, and at dawn I rose to the skies
The powder fell beautifully from the plane onto Joe

Joe Swamp is now all white
Joe Swamp escapes from the bogs
Joe Swamp has turned to stone
For Joe Swamp, this is the end
I caught Joe and now I have him, woohoo!
Cash is always? good so now I'm selling him to the zoo

In Czech after the jump.

Original Czech [via Trooperer in youtube comments]

Projížd?l jsem d?dinou cestou na Vizovice.
P?ivítal m? p?edseda, ?ek mi u slivovice:
"Živého ?i mrtvého Jožina kdo p?ivede,
tomu já dám za ženu dceru a p?l JZD.

Jožin z bažin mo?álem se? plíží,
Jožin z bažin k vesnici se blíží,
Jožin z bažin už si zuby brousí,
Jožin z bažin kouše, saje, rdousí.
Na Jožina z bažin, koho by to napadlo,
platí jen a pouze práškovací letadlo.

?íkám: "Dej mi p?edsedo letadlo a prášek,
Jožina ti p?ivedu, nevidím v tom há?ek.
"P?edseda mi vyhov?l, ráno jsem se vznesl,
na Jožina z letadla prášek p?kn? klesl.

Refren:Jožin z bažin už je celý? bílý,
Jožin z bažin z mo?álu ven pílí,
Jožin z bažin dostal se na kámen,
Jožin z bažin tady je s ním amen.
Jožina jsem dohnal, už ho držím, johohó,
dobré každé lóvé, prodám já ho do ZOO.