Billy Bragg - Between the Wars (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985) - translation of the lyrics into German




Between the Wars (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
Zwischen den Kriegen (Live San Francisco 3. Juni 1985)
I was a miner
Ich war ein Bergmann
I was a docker
Ich war ein Docker
I was a railway man
Ich war ein Eisenbahner
Between the wars
Zwischen den Kriegen
I raised a family
Ich zog eine Familie groß
In times of austerity
In Zeiten der Sparsamkeit
With sweat at the foundry
Mit Schweiß in der Gießerei
Between the wars
Zwischen den Kriegen
I paid the union and as times got harder
Ich zahlte die Gewerkschaft, und als die Zeiten härter wurden
I looked to the government to help the working man
Schaute ich zur Regierung, um dem arbeitenden Mann zu helfen
But they brought prosperity down at the armoury
Aber sie brachten Wohlstand in der Rüstungsfabrik
We're arming for peace my boys!
Wir rüsten für den Frieden, meine Jungs!
Between the wars
Zwischen den Kriegen
I kept the faith and I kept voting
Ich behielt den Glauben und ich wählte weiter
Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand
Nicht für die eiserne Faust, sondern für die helfende Hand
For theirs is a land with a wall around it
Denn ihres ist ein Land mit einer Mauer darum
And mine is a faith in my fellow man
Und meines ist ein Glaube an meinen Mitmenschen
Theirs is a land of hope and glory
Ihres ist ein Land der Hoffnung und des Ruhms
Mine is the green field and the factory floor
Meines ist das grüne Feld und der Fabrikboden
Theirs are the skies all dark with bombers
Ihre sind die Himmel, ganz dunkel von Bombern
And mine is the peace we knew
Und meiner ist der Frieden, den wir kannten
Between the wars
Zwischen den Kriegen
Call up the craftsmen
Ruft die Handwerker
Bring me the draughtsmen
Bringt mir die Zeichner
Build me a path from cradle to grave
Baut mir einen Weg von der Wiege bis zur Bahre
And I'll give my consent
Und ich gebe meine Zustimmung
To any government
Jeder Regierung
That does not deny a man a living wage
Die einem Mann keinen existenzsichernden Lohn verweigert
Go find the young men never to fight again
Geht, findet die jungen Männer, die nie wieder kämpfen sollen
Bring up the banners from the days gone by
Holt die Banner aus vergangenen Tagen hervor
Sweet moderation
Süße Mäßigung
Heart of this nation
Herz dieser Nation
Desert us not, we are
Verlass uns nicht, wir sind
Between the wars
Zwischen den Kriegen





Writer(s): Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg - Billy Bragg, Vol. 1
Album
Billy Bragg, Vol. 1
date of release
06-03-2006

1 The Milkman of Human Kindness
2 Nicaragua Nicarguita
3 Blake's Jerusalem
4 The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
5 I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
6 The Internationale
7 Hold the Fort
8 Only Bad Signs
9 A Nurse's Life Is Full of Woe
10 Greetings To the New Brunette (Demo)
11 The Clashing of Ideologies (Alternative Version)
12 Wishing the Days Away (Alternative Version)
13 The Tracks of My Tears
14 There Is Power In a Union (Instrumental)
15 Deportees
16 Sin City
17 The Home Front
18 The Warmest Room
19 The Passion
20 Wishing the Days Away
21 The Red Flag
22 My Youngest Son Came Home Today
23 Introduction (Live)
24 Help Save the Youth of America (Live)
25 Between the Wars (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
26 There Is Power In a Union (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
27 A Lover Sings (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
28 The Milkman of Human Kindness (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
29 The Saturday Boy (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
30 Jeane (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
31 Which Side Are You On (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
32 It Says Here (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
33 The Marriage (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
34 Help Save the Youth of America
35 From a Vauxhall to a Velox (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
36 A Change Is Gonna Come
37 Never Cross a Picket Line
38 This Land Is Your Land
39 Joe Hill
40 There is Power In a Union (With the Pattersons) [Alternative Version]
41 To Have and to Have Not - Live
42 Days Like These (DC Remix)
43 Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (Live)
44 Think Again (Live)
45 A Miner's Life
46 To Have and to Have Not (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
47 There Is Power in a Union
48 Levi Stubbs' Tears
49 Love Gets Dangerous
50 It Says Here
51 Fear Is a Man's Best Friend
52 A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
53 The Man in the Iron Mask (Alternative Version)
54 The Cloth (2)
55 Love Gets Dangerous (Alternative Version)
56 This Guitar Says Sorry (Alternative Version)
57 Loving You Too Long
58 Speedway Hero
59 Love Lives Here
60 The Cloth (1)
61 Strange Things Happen (Alternative Version)
62 Lovers Town Revisited
63 The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
64 The Man in the Iron Mask
65 A New England
66 Richard
67 To Have and to Have Not
68 The Myth of Trust
69 From a Vauxhall Velox
70 The Saturday Boy
71 Island of No Reurn
72 Ideology
73 The Marriage
74 Train Train
75 Greetings to the New Brunette
76 The World Turned Upside Down
77 Between the Wars
78 It Says Here (Alternative Version)
79 Which Side Are You On
80 A Lover Sings (Alternative Version)
81 Honey, I'm a Big Boy Now
82 Back To The Old House
83 You Got The Power
84 Talking Wag Club Blues
85 Won't Talk About It
86 It Must Be A River
87 A Lover Sings
88 Strange Things Happen
89 This Guitar Says Sorry
90 Like Solders Do
91 St. Swithin's Day
92 The Last Time

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