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The lyrics is the song in both English and German can be found here. It seems to be a song about sexualising scantily clad island women yet also celebrating them rebuffing the colonial German men. Why was this a popular song (was it a popular song)? What is the deeper history behind it?

This is claimed by the Historia Civilis channel here. They do come across as pompous, from time to time, when depicted in TV and film.