springwater - lyrics - friday the fifth

Friday the Fifth

Von diesem Lied ist jedes Wort wahr, ehrlich!!! Der Schotte hieß wirklich Robert und kam aus Islay. Der Herr Rader war an jenem denkwürdigen Freitag, den 5. Juni 1991, mit ihm unterwegs in einem legendären Nürnberger Schuppen namens Hemdendienst, in dem eine mittlerweile ebenso legendäre Lokalband namens Fiddler´s Green einen ihrer noch legendäreren ersten Auftritte hatte. Keiner von uns dachte damals dran, dass diese Jungs später mal international folken würden. Und der Herr Rader hatte sowieso keine Ahnung davon, wie diese Nacht noch enden würde.

Low rolled the tide on that friday night. It was the fifth of June.
We drank some pints of beer to a band playing here and we all sang their tune.
It went,

"HEY HEY it´s okay! The water sparkles in the bay!
The sun burns on my back in the morning!
OW OW! Alright now! I´m going out to melk the cow!
It´s just a bloody secret how this work shall e´er be done!"

Then Robert the Scott appeared on the spot. He cried, "Aye ye bastards! Yell!
If the sober go to heaven - that´s what they try to tell - we´ll meet again in hell!"

"HEY HEY it´s okay! The water sparkles in the bay!
The sun burns on my back in the morning!
OW OW! Alright now! I´m going out to melk the cow!
It´s just a bloody secret how this work shall e´er be done!"

We drank some more and crawled to the shore while Robert stayed back in town.
He kicked some windows out, did vomit, got thrown out, but the bugger came back ´round!
And he sang,

"HEY HEY it´s okay! The water sparkles in the bay!
The sun burns on my back in the morning!
OW OW! Alright now! I´m going out to melk the cow!
It´s just a bloody secret how this work shall e´er be done!"

Low rolled the tide on that friday night. It was the fifth of june.
Slainté all ye drunkards! Hear last order´s call, "Laugh, sing, dance and FOLK ALL!"

"HEY HEY it´s okay! The water sparkles in the bay!
The sun burns on my back in the morning!
OW OW! Alright now! I´m going out to melk the cow!
It´s just a bloody secret how this work shall e´er be done!"