Lyrics and translation Hellbillies - Skomakar

Skomakar

Far min va skomakar sjål, han tvinna bekatråd.
Han svinga syl og busteleiv når'n sydde nye sula på.
Kniven kruspa i læ, det small i plugg tå tre.
Han va hendug far min, kunna lite tå kort,
No ska're meste skje so fort.

Han va skomakar sjål, so slapp'n kjøpe nytt!
Eg spring rundt i to joggesko, slett ikkji heimesytt.
Han va skomakar sjål, no finst dæ ingen att!
Nye sko æ finast. Gamle sko må hivast.
Men dæ burde skrivast ein sang om far min som lappa sko!

Henda kunn brukast te mangt, og ikkji berre telle peng.
Alt ferdigkjøpt æ fint og dyrt, dæ æ mykji som ein stakkar treng.
Og når dæ ryk og går sundt, bi're kasta i eit søplespann.
Dæ som far min kunna æ're ingen som kan.
Nei, ingen har slik tek som han,
Som va skomakar sjål.

Shoemaker

My father was a shoemaker, he twisted waxed thread.
He swung awl and bristle when he sewed on new soles.
The knife crackled in the last, it banged in wooden plugs.
He was a skilled father, could play a little cards,
Now it should be done mostly so quickly.

He was a shoemaker alone, so he didn't have to buy new!
I run around in two jogging shoes, not at all homemade.
He was a shoemaker alone, now there are none left!
New shoes are the best. Old shoes must be thrown away.
But a song should be written about my father who patched up shoes!

Hands could be used for many things, and not just to count money.
Everything ready-made is nice and expensive, that's a lot that a poor man needs.
And when it breaks and falls apart, it will be thrown into a garbage can.
What my father could do, no one else can.
No, no one has such a touch as he,
Who was a shoemaker alone.