Song for November 2018: 'Wedding Song' (Hochzeitslied) Gerhard Gundermann (English translation)

Wedding song

´If you have an old house,

a lot of space inside

for donkey, dog and coloured cock

and ´a grey cat besides.

They sing their robbers´ songs

with the piano played by you.

Then I´ll stay, yes I´ll stay

Then I´ll stay with you, too.

´If you have an old car

´and it´s really yours,

it stinks and smokes and clatters

and ´it is much too small.

But ´you don´t pass hitch-´hikers by,

don´t act like a mad bull.

Then I´ll stay, yes I´ll stay

Then I´ll stay with you.

´If you have a garden hut,

with a garden plot besides,

where a guy could nick a plum

as green as it still is.

´If he shits his pants,

he´ll ´get a pair of yours.

Then I´ll stay, yes I´ll stay

Then I´ll stay with you, for sure.

´If you have a wooden table,

lay it every day,

with spirits, bread and apples

and whatever the guests might like.

´If you are the ´first to be

groggy with strong beer,

Then I´ll stay, yes I´ll stay,

Then I´ll stay with you here.

If your legs are very long

and you love to stride,

But when we two go for a walk,

I´m always by your side.

You´d gently take my arm

so ´that I won´t lose´ you
Then I´ll stay, yes I´ll stay

Then I´ll stay with you.

If you have a big mouth,

such a wide one it is

that ´meeting ´it your ´two ´ears

are spared from loneliness

and if you miss a tooth

because you fought for me,

Then I´ll stay, yes I´ll stay

Then I´ll stay with you, here.

If you have a warm bed,

which is not only wide,

No, it must be capable

of flying into the sky.

If ´we ´ll make ´love in ´it,

have four ´children or ´more.

Then I´ll stay, yes I´ll stay

Then I´ll stay with you, for sure.

If your heart is pounding

and almost bursts your chest,

because it is not able

to bear any darkness,

and if I am without you once

and notice that I´m cold

Then I´ll stay, yes I´ll stay

Then I´ll stay with you.