Paroles et traduction Georg Danzer - Elfi

Elfi

Du bist gschdaundn in der dunklergossn
Und du host di duat aufreißn loßn
Du bist glant duat aun da mauer
Beim hotel bauer
Jeden tog, waun i von der schui hamgaunga bin
Bist duat gschdaundn in an kladl, des woa blau...
Oder grin?
Deine hoa woan so hoch auftupiad
Und immer waun i di gsegn hob,
Hob i sowos komisches gschbiad
Elfi, elfi
I woa dreizehn joa
Du woast anazwanzg und wunderscheh fia mi
Und du woasd mei große liebe
Waun a nur in meiner fantasie
Nochmidog san daun di ersten männer kuma
Und an host immer mit aufs zimmer gnumma
Und i hob ned gewußt, wos do drinnen so rennt
Außer des, wos ma so dazöht ham in da schui
Hinter vorghoidene händ
Und du woast so zoat
So hülflos und so kla
Deine augn woan so miad wia de
Taubn aufn schdaubign trottoa
Aun an haßn tog im august aun
Der wien
Waun der suma riacht noch
Kinderfreibod, noch teer und benzin
Elfi, elfi
I woa dreizehn joa
Du woast anazwanzg und wunderscheh fia mi
Und du woasd mei große liebe
Waun a nur in meiner fantasie

Elfi

You were standing in the dark alley
And you let them tear you apart
You were leaning there on the wall
Outside the Hotel Bauer
Every day, when I walked home from school
You were standing there in a dress, it was blue...
Or green?
Your hair was so high, like a beehive
And whenever I saw you
I felt something strange
Elfi, Elfi
I was thirteen years old
You were twenty-two and a wonder to me
And you were my great love
Even if only in my imagination
In the afternoon, the first men would come
And you would always take them to your room
And I didn't know what was going on in there
Except what they told us in school
Behind drawn curtains
And you were so gentle
So helpless and so small
Your eyes were as tired as the
Pigeons on the dusty sidewalk
On a hot day in August on the
Vienna
When the summer still smells like
Children's swimming pool, tar and gasoline
Elfi, Elfi
I was thirteen years old
You were twenty-two and a wonder to me
And you were my great love
Even if only in my imagination