CARPENTER — Worship took a oom-pah turn Sunday at Deer Creek Lutheran Church at Carpenter. To the strains of “Beer Barrel Polka” and “I Overlooked an Orchid,” the hymns sung Sunday sounded like hits ...

Germans insisted it was an old Bavarian drinking song. Americans and British thought it was one of their own. Anyhow, they all sang it. The Beer Barrel Polka became the Tipperary of World War II, ...