Milionář ( English translation: Millionaire) is a single by the popular Czech singer

Jaromír Nohavica Jaromír Nohavica or Jarek Nohavica (born 7 June 1953, in Ostrava) is a Czech recording artist, songwriter, lyricist and poet. Early life He was born in Ostrava and has played guitar since he was 13. He began studies at the Technical Univers ...

. It was realized in two versions: Czech and Polish (entitled ''Milionerzy''). The song is telling story of Franta Šiška, whose friend told him to play '' Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' (

Milionář ''Milionář'' (English translation: ''Millionaire'') was a Czech game show based on the original British format of '' Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?''. The show was hosted by Roman Šmucler. The main goal of the game was to win 2,000,000 Kč ...

/ Milionerzy). He went to the studio, won Fastest Finger First and got to the first question, which was "What is a ukulele?". First, he used ''phone a friend'', but his friend was drunk and didn't know the answer. Then he used ''fifty fifty'' and next - ''ask the audience'', 90% of the audience was saying the correct answer - Hawaii instrument. Franta chose the correct answer and won 1,000 korun. Then, without even looking at the second question he decided to resign from playing. At the end, Franta says he'll use his money to buy a ticket back his home town, Ostrava and he will give the rest to homeless people. The song contains some dialectal and vulgar words.

Release history

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