I bin aus Österreich [English translation]

In recent times it seems to be modern again

I can't listen to it all any more

Always that same old nonsense

Blood and Soil, People and Race

Being "pure-blooded" is worth something again

Are we supposed to be dogs, or am I a horse?

But before I come and tell you what's what

Allow me to introduce myself...

My great-grandfather was an Alpine farmboy

Yodelling in his Lederhosen, as German as you like

His wife a little girl from some little nest

Between Balaton1 and Budapest

The other was a traveller, so the people said

A fisherman - great-grandma didn't really ask

And I look into the mirror and I look at myself

And then I say, "Hey everyone, there's something about this"

I've got a headscarf, a Kippa2, a Styrian hat

And you'll never drag me away from where the wild streams rush

I love my Hammelbraten3 and I love my Kaiserschmarr'n4

And I'd be quite lost without my Tamburica5 music

I'm from India, I'm from Palestine

From the Wachau6, Ramsau7, even Africa and China

From here and there, from there and here

I have the honour that in my blood this all takes place

I'm a fine mixture, a special blend

You know what they call people like me?

I'm the wild sort, the brown go pale

I am from Austria

When I hear Carinthian songs, the feelings come on me

And the Slovene in me sings right along

And brings me and the whole world to tears

If I hear a tuba in the street

I'm a Bohemian Jew, a Gypsy from Vienna

I'm a milkmaid, a janitor, a Muezzin,

I'm a young Roman, and old Croat

If I didn't exist, it'd be a real shame

I'm a fine mixture, a special blend

You know what they call people like me?

I'm the wild sort, the brown go pale

I am from Austria

One is called Drago, is blond and looks at the world with blue eyes

The other's called Gert and looks exactly the same

As you would imagine a Drago to look8

Some are Aryan, others are fools

Some are both at once

Everything gets mixed up, like this and like that

Here in Austria

I'm a fine mixture, a special blend

You know what they call people like me?

I'm the wild sort, the brown go pale

I am from Austria

1. A large lake in Hungary2. A Jewish skullcap3. Roast mutton4. A Viennese pancake dessert5. Serbo-Croatian lute6. A region on the Austrian Danube7. A small town in the German Alps8. Drago is a common South Slav name, stereotypically with dark hair and complexion

• Artist:S.T.S.
• Album:Zeit