I was actually watching news about Ukrainian drone strikes inside Russia, and there was a video floating about appearing to show an Ukrainian drone with speakers playing the tune of Son Ar Chistr / Was wollen wir trinken as it flew overhead. I have no idea of the veracity of that video and won't link to it as it may be UFO nonsense, but it got me down the rabbit hole of Son Ar Chistr / Was wollen wir trinken renditions.
I am not a musician or musicophile, but it is interesting how songs do have history. Covers and translations serve as mutations and adaptions that might allow a song lineage to survive to the modern day. I wonder how many songs from the medieval period simply vanished simply because the meter wasn't adaptable to more modern instruments? There must be an evolutionary tree of songs - it may be impossible to accurately draw it, but it must exist all the same.
