(Steve Earl/Ned. tekst Jack Poels). Henk is enne lollige vent. Henk is enne lollige vent. als Henk wat zet lacht de ganse tent. elke daag op elk moment.
(Jack Poels). 't is echt woar ik ken enne vent. heej is dertig joar en noeit content. heej is knettergek, heej is knettergek. en 't ergste van alles is heej liekt op meej.
I've been all around your dirty old city. Been all around your dirty old town [shades of ewan maccoll --.ed]. I've slept in your alleys, I've slept in your subways.
Pre> b em c7 d em. How long, how long can we go on. F# g b. How long, how long can we go on,. C d. This troubled land may never last. C d em. There is no future in the past.
How high is the watergate, mama, she said it's one foot high and risin'. How high is the watergate, pama, he said it's two feet high and risin'. There's a flood around the poker game (there's a bug on the window pane).
Here's to the State of Mississippi. For underneath her borders, the devil draws no lines. If you drag her muddy river, nameless bodies you will find. Whoa the fat trees of the forest have hid a thousand crimes.
Here's a song 'bout, 'Hazard, Kentucky'. . Well, some people think that unions are too strong. Union leaders should go back where they belong. But I wish that they could see a little more of poverty.
Pre>g bm c d. I've seen the hands of laborers that lifted all the loads. G bm c d. And the granite stuck to their fingers as they dug the canals and the roads.
In the tube where I was born. I could have sworn. There was so much to see. There was so little to be. But I was free. . World at my command. Through the dots I ran.
Hunger nach Schicksal. Wenn andere leiden hrst du zu. Wenn sie verzweifeln bist du gern dabei. Depressionenparasit. Fremde Dramen machen dich so froh.
Im Hotel Daheim war kein Zimmer frei. berall wo ich nicht bin will ich lieber sein. Ich wr so gerne promiskuitiv. Und bin doch leider nur politoxikoman.
Manchmal ists in mir so still. dass ich nicht schlafen kann. Dann warte ich auf irgendwas. was mich anschucken kann. Dann steh ich auf und schau dich an.
Here, making each day of the year. Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there's something there. There running my hands through her hair.
We had an apartment in the city. Me and Loretta liked living there. Well it's been years since the kid's have grown. A life of their own and left us alone.
Oh the neon lights were flashin' and the icy wind did blow. The water seeped into his shoes and the drizzle turned to snow. His eyes were red, his hopes were dead and the wine was runnin' low.
With a lady like devotion. She sails the bitter ocean. If it wasn't for lovesick sailors. There'd be nothin' left but flotsam. . Singin' why, oh my, is there a better man than I?.
When I walk the hill so high. Around the town where I was born. New York seems so far away. Though I was there just yesterday. . I have played on my guitar.
Hey you, upon this ship of fools. I have found you bending your own rules. Thank you, I don't mind if I do. Dream a while of the lovin' that we knew. .
In this land of chance do we know right from wrong. Even at a glance we know the road is long. We don't owe a single thing to anyone. . Most of us do not believe in come what may.
I'm not afraid that when I'm dying. There'll be no one to hold my hand. If there's a God up there, he loves me. As much as my old woman can. . I don't intend to be a martyr.