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13. Moses (Eine etwas grobe Übersetzung.)

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When we set off from Rotterdam

with the Edam, a rusty boat,

with cockroaches on amidships

and rats behind every bulkhead.

We had a little boy

as Moses on board,

he had heard before this voyage

never a tale of sharks.

As farewell greeting to his mother

he timidly raised a hand.

He didn't want to dare to do more,

the streetboy of Rotterdam.

He was made fun of by the stokers,

swayed with soup bowls to the table.

Late in the evening he fell tired on his bed,

where he wrote letters to his home.

Once on a fine sunny morning,

it was on our way back home

and the crew called him for coffee,

he did not leave his bunk.

When the helmsman with quinine

and miracle oils came to him,

he asked an advance on the wages

for his parents in Rotterdam.

In a duffel bag and with old iron

He was laid on deck at twelve o'clock.

The captain took off his cap

and spoke a rough prayer.

With "one-two-three-in-God's-name"

little Ketelbinkie went overboard.

The men showed no emotion,

just as a sailor should.

For the crew a sip of 'Schot-an',

for the parents a telegram -

that was the end of a sailsman,

of the streetboy from Rotterdam,

of the streetboy from Rotterdam.

Gesang:	Achim
Instrumente:	Achim
Arrangement:	Achim Bahrenberg
Aufnahme, Bearbeitung, Studio- und Mastermix:	TSDG1

		Jan Vogel ('Ketelbinkie')		Anton Beuving ('Ketelbinkie', NL Orig.), Achim Bahrenberg (D)


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