Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett [English translation]

[Chorus:]

Mimi would never go to bed without a thriller

Wouldn't go to bed

Wouldn't go to bed

Wouldn't go to bed

Without a thriller, Mimi unfortunately can't do

And the light is burning all night long.

Every night Mimi goes to bed at nine thirty,

But never without having walked up to the bookshelf before.

She would never pick Goethe or Schiller

No way, a hardcore thriller is what Mimi prefers.

[Chorus]

I want to sleep, but Mimi wants to read.

I want to sleep, but Mimi hasn't advanced beyond page 104

Where the killer from Manhattan prepares cyanide soup

For the judge that had sent him to jail in Chicago.

I'm completely up to date, since she reads the best parts aloud,

I lie next to her trembling, getting goosebumps.

[Chorus]

I can't sleep, because Mimi has to read

I won't even wait for the next dead body,

So I sneak out of the bed,

Leave the room, leave the house,

And enter the opposite bar.

There a couple of shots will clear my head again.

I'm a regular there and the barman knows me well

With him I'll stay as long as the light in my home is on.

[Chorus]

Mimi has got the thriller and Interpol,

And I have got the booze

Mimi has got the thriller and Interpol,

And I have got the booze

Cheers!

• Artist:Bill Ramsey
• Album:Single (1962)