Help With German Please

[wolf63]

I 'think' that the text on this postcard is:

gell du blauauge (or blauaugate)
gell für Di taugat i
Für Di War I Recht
wenn i nur mocht

but that translates to:
dear you blue-eye
gell for Di taugat i
For Di I was right
if only i like it

and this doesn't make sense. Can anyone help??

https://postimg.cc/LJmLS2ht

[Etch]

The words appear to be those of a traditional song, but with "Blauaugate" replacing "Schwarzaugeti". Look at page 18 of this document:
https://www.weltbild.ch/media/txt/pdf/9783903159105-147115868-gstanzln-schnaderhuepfln.pdf

Still doesn't explain what they mean though!

[wolf63]

Etch, thank you for finding the music for the song, at least I now know that it 'is' actually a song.
German as a language is something that I will never understand.

I copied and pasted the text on the page that you linked to but it still doesn't make any sense.

I will probably sell the postcard with some vague description.

Thank you for taking the time to help.

[jno]

it's dialectish but something (very roughly) like pretty blue eyes, I'd be right for you if I only could

[wolf63]

Thanks jno.

They seem to change words or join words together to make longer words. It's all too foreign (forrin as PP would say).

[JimF]

"They seem to change words or join words together to make longer words."

That's how German works - it's an agglutinating language.

[jno]

they do. Hottentottenpotentatentantenattentat, if I've got that right, is "an attempt on the life of the aunt of a Hottentot potentate".

[Etch]

The document is entitled "Gstanzln & Schnaderhüpfln (funny quatrains from the Alpine region)". There is Wikipedia article for 'Gstanzl', which says that "Depending on the region, a Gstanzl may also be called Schnadderhüpfl":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gstanzl