Claus Kucher found this on the Internet.  Sure enough, the best-known beer
song in America has no mention of beer in it !

Note that "Roll Out The Barrel" is the title of the song with the English
lyric, and this song version omits an interlude section which is preserved
in "Rosamunde".  I have the feeling that the instrumental-only hit record
played by Will Glahe is indeed the same song known as "Rosamunde" in the
German lands, and some thoughtful producer gave it the title "Beer Barrel
Polka" for the record issued in America.

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  Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out The Barrel)
    taken from "Skoda Lasky" (Czeck Landler by Jaromir Vejvoda)
    in German-speaking regions known as "Rosamunde"
  The Andrews Sisters, 1939
  English Lyric: Lee Brown

  BEER BARREL POLKA

  There's a garden, what a garden,
  Only happy faces bloom there
  And there's never any room there
  For a worry or a gloom there.
  Oh! there's music and there's dancing
  And a lot of sweet romancing
  When they play a polka
  they all get in the swing:

  Ev'ry time they hear that oom-pa-pa
  Ev'rybody feels so tra-la-la
  They want to throw their cares away
  They all go lah-de-ah-de-ay,
  Then they hear a rumble on the floor
  It's the big surprise they're waiting for
  And all the couples form a ring
  For miles around you'll hear them sing:

  Roll out the barrel.
  We'll have a barrel of fun.
  Roll out the barrel.
  We've got the blues on the run.
  Zing! Boom! Tar-rar-rel
  Ring out a song of good cheer!
  Now's the time to roll the barrel
  For the gang's all here.