Текст и перевод песни Helena Vondráčková, Josef Vobruba, Bezinky & Taneční orchestr Čs.rozhlasu - 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.

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

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

Louis Armstrong used to play it and others
Where did that old song go?
A new song I seek, I sing it now
And though I love it dearly, I hear
That old song in it too

Mr. Kainar wrote the lyrics for it
Where did that old song go? gee
Those lyrics were not a hack job, they haven't aged a bit
So I'd like to know
Where did that old song go?

Perhaps this is the fate of songs
To disappear like a ping-pong ball
When they run out of steam, they crowd into archives
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 are sixteen years old
And today you no longer hear
How that old song sounded back then

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
The water has gone and taken what it took
With it, that old song has disappeared...

So sing
May the sun continue to shine brightly
That fixed point, golden gong, oh yeah.
When one day you want
To hear your today's song ring out
I'll say: lalalala, the water took it away,
Just like that old song.