Billy Bragg - Between the Wars (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985) - translation of the lyrics into German




Between the Wars (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
Zwischen den Kriegen (Live im I Beam – San Francisco 3. Juni 1985)
I was a miner
Ich war Bergmann
I was a docker
Ich war Hafenarbeiter
I was a railway man
Ich war Eisenbahner
Between the wars
Zwischen den Kriegen
I raised a family
Ich zog eine Familie groß
In times of austerity
In Zeiten der Entbehrung
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, dass sie dem arbeitenden Mann hilft
But they brought prosperity down at the armoury
Doch sie brachten Wohlstand unten im Zeughaus
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 drumherum
And mine is a faith in my fellow man
Und meines ist der Glaube an meine 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 die Fabrikhalle
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 werde meine Zustimmung geben
To any government
Jeder Regierung
That does not deny a man a living wage
Die keinem Mann einen Lohn zum Leben 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 Only Bad Signs
2 A Nurse's Life Is Full of Woe
3 Greetings To the New Brunette (Demo)
4 The Tracks of My Tears
5 There Is Power In a Union (Instrumental)
6 Deportees
7 Sin City
8 The Home Front
9 The Passion
10 Wishing the Days Away
11 Between the Wars (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
12 There Is Power In a Union (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
13 A Lover Sings (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
14 The Milkman of Human Kindness (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
15 The Saturday Boy (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
16 Jeane (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
17 Which Side Are You On (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
18 It Says Here (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
19 The Marriage (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
20 From a Vauxhall To a Velox (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
21 To Have and To Have Not (Live at I Beam – San Francisco 3 June 1985)
22 The Cloth (Version 2)
23 Love Gets Dangerous (Alternate Version)
24 This Guitar Says Sorry (Alternate Version)
25 The Cloth (Version 1)
26 Strange Things Happen (Alternate Version)
27 Ideology
28 The Marriage
29 Train Train
30 Honey, I'm a Big Boy Now
31 The Milkman of Human Kindness
32 Between the Wars
33 The World Turned Upside Down
34 Greetings to the New Brunette
35 Levi Stubbs' Tears
36 There Is Power in a Union
37 Help Save the Youth of America
38 The Warmest Room
39 Wishing the Days Away (Alternative Version)
40 The Clashing of Ideologies (Alternative Version)
41 Hold the Fort
42 The Internationale
43 I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
44 The Marching Song of the Covert
45 Blake's Jerusalem
46 Nicaragua Nicaraguita
47 The Red Flag
48 My Youngest Son Came Home Today
49 Introduction (Live)
50 Think Again (Live)
51 Chile Your Water Run Red Through Sewto - Live
52 Days Like These (DC Remix)
53 To Have and to Have Not - Live
54 There Is Power in a Union - Live
55 Joe Hill
56 This Land Is Your Land
57 Never Cross a Picket Line
58 A Change Is Gonna Come
59 It Says Here (Alternative Version)
60 Which Side Are You On
61 A Lover Sings (Alternative Version)
62 Back To The Old House
63 To Have and to Have Not
64 Richard
65 A New England
66 The Man in the Iron Mask
67 The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
68 Lovers Town Revisited
69 Love Lives Here
70 Speedway Hero
71 Loving You Too Long
72 The Man in the Iron Mask (Alternative Version)
73 A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
74 Fear Is a Man's Best Friend
75 It Says Here
76 A Miner's Life
77 Love Gets Dangerous
78 From a Vauxhall Velox
79 The Saturday Boy
80 Island of No Return
81 St. Swithin's Day
82 Like Soldiers Do
83 This Guitar Says Sorry
84 Strange Things Happen
85 A Lover Sings
86 It Must Be A River
87 Won't Talk About It
88 Talking Wag Club Blues
89 You Got The Power
90 The Last Time
91 The Myth of Trust

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