Does anyone know the story beind the two grenadiers?

Question

I have been playing it and someone told me there is an interesting story the song was based on. Does anyone know the story or a website i could see it?

Thanks for the help!!!

Answer 1

After a bit of googling I found what I think is your song, composed by a german poet named Heine 1797-1856,

http://cc.ysu.edu/~tacopela/MP3/HeineFra...

Seems the song was written by a satirical jewish man.