Cliffhanger Yodel
Yodel, Old Industrial UK Coventry Drill Price Lyric is Right Main Tension Theme – “Hans Is Climbing” (Sung every time the price is revealed and Hans starts walking. Repeat as needed, crowd screams the price after each line) Verse (spoken/shouted over the famous 3-note climb motif) (And yes, the yodel must be performed with maximum theatrical terror and joy.) 🏔🗣🎺2.9sFast
Cliffhanger Yodel
Yodel, Old Industrial UK Coventry Drill Price Lyric is Right Main Tension Theme – “Hans Is Climbing” (Sung every time the price is revealed and Hans starts walking. Repeat as needed, crowd screams the price after each line) Verse (spoken/shouted over the famous 3-note climb motif) (And yes, the yodel must be performed with maximum theatrical terror and joy.) 🏔🗣🎺2.9sFast
Lyrics
Come on down, you’re the next contestant on the cliff!
Hans is ready with his lederhosen and his mountain-climbing gift!
Yodel riff (sing this every time Hans takes a step):
Hi-di-hi-di-hi-di-ho!
He’s goin’ up the mountain, don’t let him go!
Hi-di-hi-di-hi-di-hey!
Guess too high and he falls away!
Attempt 1
Contestant shouts their guess → band hits the 3-note climb
Yodel: “Fifty dollars??” → Hans takes 3 tiny steps
Too low! Keep going!
Attempt 2
“Two hundred seventy-five??” → Hans takes 12 more nervous steps
Yodel: “He’s getting close, don’t make him slip!”
Attempt 3 (final guess)
“Four hundred and two??” → dramatic pause…
If wrong → tragic tuba + Hans scream:
“NEIN! AAAAAAHHHHH!” (full yodel descending glissando as he falls)
If correct → instant key change to C major, victory horns!
Victory Celebration – “Hans Survived the Mountain!”
(Full band, Austrian drinking-song energy, crowd claps on 2 & 4)
Chorus (sing loud while confetti falls)
Hans made it! He’s alive!
He climbed the cliff and never died!
Yodel-odel-odel-ay!
You won the prize, hip-hip-hooray!
Yodel-odel-odel-oh!
No falling off the cliff today, let’s go!
Raise your beer and shout real loud,
You kept poor Hans from the rocky ground!
Tag (shouted)
One more time for the people in the back:
HANS DIDN’T DIE! HAPPY PRICE IS RIGHT ATTACK!
Bonus Losing Version (for the dramatic fall)
Hi-di-hi-di-hi-di… SPLAT!
Better luck next time, welcome to the flat!
Hans is now a pancake on the studio floor,
But come on down, we’ve got three more!
Use it, record it, post it. The mountain is waiting.