Vaters Nachtlied [English translation]

I'm sorry, you know, I just couldn't come home earlier

It was such a long council, my God, till after eight o'clock

Well, did you take Benno Bear and Fritz Fox in your bed with you

And also the crumbeling monster? I thought a lot about you

Were your grandparents here, has it been a nice day?

And did you make your mother buy you an ice-cream again?

And me? Well, first I've read the stock exchange report

And meanwhile I thought about how to glue your gumboat

And meanwhile I thought about how to glue your gumboat

Then doctor Schulze-Wüstenfeld gave a working dinner

And O slipped from one back cheek to the other

We had "hot deer ragout", how much more I'd have liked

To share a sausage and to lick licorice with you

Then I actually forgot to laugh about a joke

That senator Kühn considers to be indescribeably funny

I might have been thinking about making eggdough

In the meantime they voted me into the controlling commitee

In the meantime they voted me into the controlling commitee

It's true, since I'm there, not only the calculations are right

The increase rates are doubled and the index is going up

Today would have been the day to plant our pumpkin

And then I would have liked to show you how to sow radishes

Maybe I achieved way the biggest coup today

Maybe the big contract that the whole company dreams about

But for sure I didn't sing with you today

And I missed a day with you that will never come back

And I missed a day with you that will never come back

• Artist:Reinhard Mey
• Album:Mein Apfelbäumchen