Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass (Three Chinese or Chinamen With A Double Bass) is a popular nonsensical German children's song. Its distinctive feature is a very simple form of word play: while the lyrics remain in effect unchanged, in each consecutive stanza all the vowels are replaced by one single vowel, with that single vowel changing in each new stanza.
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