How Yodeling Began
 
Back in the olden days, a man was traveling through Switzerland. 
Nightfall was rapidly approaching, and the man had nowhere to sleep. 
He went up to a farmhouse and asked the farmer if he could spend the 
night. 

The farmer told him that it would be all right, and that he could 
sleep in the barn. The man went into the barn to bed down, and the 
farmer went back into the house. 

Well as the story goes, the farmer's daughter came downstairs and 
asked her father, "Who was that man going into the barn?" 

"That's some fellow traveling through," said the farmer. "He needed a 
place to stay for the night, so I said that he could sleep in the 
barn. 

The daughter then asked, "Did you offer the man anything to eat"? 

"Gee, no, I didn't," the farmer answered. 

The daughter said, "Well, I'm going to take him some food." She went 
into the kitchen, prepared a plate of food, and then took it out to 
the barn. The daughter was in the barn for an hour before returning 
to the house. When she came back in, her clothes were all disheveled 
and buttoned up wrong, and she had several strands of straw tangled up 
in her long blond hair. She immediately went up the stairs to her 
bedroom and went to sleep. 

A little later, the farmer's wife came down and asked her husband why 
their daughter went to bed so early. "I don't know," said the farmer. 
"I told a man that he could sleep in the barn, and our daughter took 
im some food." 

"Oh", replied the wife. "Well, did you offer the man anything to 
drink?" 

"Umm, no, I didn't," said the farmer. 

The wife then said, "I'm going to take something out there for him to 
drink." 

The wife went to the cellar, got a bottle of wine, then went out to 
the barn. She did not return for over an hour, and when she came back 
into the house, her clothes were also messed up, and she had straw 
twisted into her blond hair. She went straight up the stairs and into 
bed. 

The next morning at sunrise, the man in the barn got up and continued 
on his journey, waving to the farmer as he left the farm. A few hours 
ater, the daughter woke up and came rushing downstairs. She went 
right out to the barn, only to find it empty. She ran back into the 
house. "Where's the man from the barn?" she eagerly asked her father. 
Her father answered, "He left several minutes ago." 

"What??" she cried. "He left without saying goodbye? After all we 
had together? I mean, last night he made such passionate love to me." 
"What?!" shouted the father. The farmer ran out into the front yard, 
looking for the man, but by now the man was halfway up the side of the 
mountain. 

The farmer screamed up at him, "I'm gonna get you! You had sex with 
my daughter!" 

The man looked back down from the mountainside, cupped his hands next 
to his mouth, and yelled out... 

"ILAIDTHEOLADEETOO!" 

And thus was born yodeling.