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, performed in an invented dialect of German by

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. The song was the fifteenth performed on the night, following 's

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with "

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" and preceding 's Jane Bogaert with " La vita cos'è?". At the close of voting, it had received 96 points, placing fifth in a field of 24.Participants at the Eurovision Song Contest 2000
eurovision.tv. Accessed 30 March 2010. The idea of the song could have come from Raab's show

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, where a short snippet from another TV-show shows a woman with her dog, which carries something in its mouth to her. In a childish cutesy dialect she asks the dog what he has there (in its mouth), hence the "Wadde hadde dudde da?". Raab had previously written and composed

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's " Guildo hat euch lieb!" for the 1998 contest, and "Wadde hadde dudde da?" is in a similar vein. The song opens with a monologue delivered in English and German in which Raab is described as "the sensational super sack of German television". Another voice explains in German that Raab had gone to

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and promised, "if I make it there / I'm never coming back to Germany again". Raab's appearance consists of a rapid-fire

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-inspired delivery of tongue twisters in an invented German dialect on the general theme of questions about what "he has there". After the opening lines, a female vocalists asks in broken English "I am so curious, I just wanna know what you there have" (a reference to

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). It is never revealed what Raab has there, but the final line "oh my God", implies that it is something surprising or obscene. The performance at the Contest was flamboyant, with Raab and his guitarists dressed in cowboy hats, and the six-person ensemble all wearing bright yellow clothing. An excerpt of the performance appeared in a montage of "Unforgettable Performances" at the ''

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'' special in late 2005. It was succeeded as German representative at the 2001 contest by Michelle with "

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