Paroles et traduction Helena Vondráčková - Kam zmizel ten starý song (What Have They Done To My Song Ma)

Kam zmizel ten starý song (What Have They Done To My Song Ma)

Kam zmizel můj dobrý přítel?
Kam zmizel ten starý song?
Nehrál se hodně let, vy přece znáte svět,
A tak možná někdo víte,
Kam zmizel ten starý song.

Louis Armstrong jej kdysi hrál i jiní
Kam zmizel ten starý song?
Novou píseň hleď, tu zpívám teď
A ač ji ráda mám, stejně při ní
Slyším ten starý song

Pan Kainar text k němu psával
Kam zmizel ten starý song? jé
Ten text nebyl škvár, ne nezestárl a tak
Věděla bych ráda
Kam zmizel ten starý song?

To snad už je osud písní
Zmizet jak míček na ping-pong
Když jim došel dech, tak v archívech
V šuplíku se tísní
Tak končí snad každý song

Hmm...
Kam zmizel můj dobrý přítel?
Nevíte, kam zmizel ten starý song?
Máte vlastní svět
Je vám šestnáct let
A dnes už neslyšíte
Jak tenkrát zněl starý song

La la la lá, la la lá lá.
La la la lá, la la lá á.

Byl kdysi swing a jazz,
Ale dnes je dnes
Voda pryč co vzala, to vzala
S ní zmizel ten starý song...

Tak zpívej
Ať slunce dál pořád sálá
Ten pevný bod, zlatý gong, ou jé.
Až jednou budeš chtít
Slyšet svou dnešný píseň znít
řeknu: lalalala, voda vzala,
Tak jako ten starý song.

What Have They Done To My Song Ma (Where Did That Old Song Go)

Where did my good friend go?
Where did that old song go?
It hasn't been played in many years, but you know the world,
So maybe someone knows,
Where did that old song go.

Louis Armstrong used to play it and so did others
Where did that old song go?
I'm singing a new song now
And though I love it, I still hear it
That old song

Mr. Kainar used to write the lyrics
Where did that old song go? yeah
The lyrics weren't bad, and they haven't aged, so
I'd like to know
Where did that old song go?

Maybe that's the fate of songs
To disappear like a ping-pong ball
When they run out of breath, they end up in archives
Crowded in a drawer
That's how every song ends

Hmm...
Where did my good friend go?
Don't you know where that old song went?
You have your own world
You're sixteen years old
And today you can't hear
How that old song sounded

La la la lá, la la lá lá.
La la la lá, la la lá á.

There used to be swing and jazz,
But today is today
What water took, it took
That old song disappeared with it...

So sing
May the sun continue to shine
That fixed point, golden gong, oh yeah.
When someday you want to hear
Your song of today
I'll say: lalalala, water took it,
Just like that old song.