Burli [Radioaktiv-Mix] [English translation]

Mr Anton has a cottage

with a garden gnome

and in front of it,

there's a nuclear power station.

One day there was

a small incident:

The tomatoes

were bigger than ever.

(And also the celery!)

And his wife, Resi,

who knows nothing about caesi-

um and plutonium,

she is knocked out along with Toni out of happyness.

Be that as it may,

it will all pass,

Time heals all wounds

And in May, a son was born.

When he saw the light of day

Anton Junior,

he seems to everyone

very suspicious.

(Very suspicious!)

The senior physician finds it alarming

that he doesn't scream and he doesn't trumps

The midwife says: "One thing I know for sure:

That the boy is something quite special!"

Burli1, Burli, Burli.

My God, our boy is so cute.

The boy has three ears on his left and right,

He's got a mushroom2 on his head,

and five toes on his foot,

My God, our Burli is so cute.

My God, is he not ever so cute.

Time goes by, the Burli doesn't,

He just sits quietly by the bowl

with his water head

and plays with his mushrooms.

In the evening Mama takes

her 'remutantwastl'

and puts it by the bed

on the chest.

Money is getting scarcer and scarcer,

but daddy rejoices,

because he only pays half the electricity

since the boy shines as a bedside lamp!

Dear children, take good care,

Now energy is being made!

The atom is a dog,

tiny and round as a ball

and if you split its nucleus,

Then we can all listen to the radio!

Radio, radio...

A little Chernobyl like this,

is ca waltz for us.

If the cloud comes from the east,

the cow radiates along with the whey,

the lettuce and the carrots too,

But we can all listen to the radio!

Radio, radio, ...

The expert rejoices,

when the reactor explodes,

For the fuel rod will eat its way down

down through the earth to China.

And then we can listen through the pipes

all of us will be able to listen to Radio Peking!

Ladio, Ladio, ...

Burli, Burli, Burli.

My God, our Burli is so cute.

Burli has three ears on his left and right,

Ten fingers on each hand,

And he has four hands.

No one plays the piano that fast.

Today the Burli counts

thirty years or more,

But finding a wife..,

that's hard.

But the neighbour's daughter,

Amalia,

is almost the spitting image of Burli.

almost to a hair.

(Which was quite thin!)

She also has a few too many

as a souvenir of Chernobyl.

And off we go down the aisle,

My soul, a beautiful couple!

Burli, Burli, Burli.

My God, our Burli is so cute.

Burli's got red ears,

And even more than her parents

Amalia is happy

because her Burli has..:

Two, three, four, two, three, four...

Burli, Burli, Burli.

My God, our Burli is so cute...

1. 'Burli' = Austrian colloquial German for boy,lad, bub2. 'Schwammerl' = Bavarian-Austrian German for mushroom

• Artist:E.A.V.
• Album:Kann denn Schwachsinn Sünde sein (LP 1988)