Rich me your poor
("Reich mir deinen Arm")Text & Music: Sibylle Machat, 2002
Notes: capo 3Sibylle says: More nonsense. This is about what can go wrong in a relationship between a German woman and and English man when your English isn't really good enough ... based on:
a) a real ocassion where I didn't get something and got told that "If it had been life and death we would both be dead now" (which was correct, too) and
b) trying to find out if German or Swedish phrases translated word-by-word sound sillier. It was a tie.____ ____ ___ ___ __ __ __ _ _ _ __ __ __ ___ ___ ____ ____
(G) Oh rich me your (C) poor
Yes, (D) come dance with (G) me
My (D) English is (G) good enough
For (C) you (am) and (G) me.(G) Sorry if I (C) say "rich me your (D) poor" and you
(G) only under(C)stand "railway (D)station"
I didn't (C) tell you to "throw the (D)shotgun into the (C)grain"
when you (D) tried to learn (G) German.(G) You look at (C) me like I "(D) have a jump in the
(G) dish" when I (C) tell you I want to (D) be a "falling umbrella
(C) jumper" and when I (D) call you "God's Child in the (C)hatbox"
you look like "an (D) ox before the (G) mountain".Oh …..
"All start is heavy" but I am a "lucky
mushroom" with you "the mail goes off"
"We live like god in France" and when in trouble
We "scratch the curve in a monkeytooth"Oh "my dear Mister singing society", lets be
careful for "Slow going is all trucks beginning"
And if we don't "take ourselves in eight"
Everything will have "been for the cat"So …
If we "get away with a blue eye" or will
have to "give it to the rabbits".
Will mostly depend on whether or not
We "saw of the branch we sit on"Well, now "human being meier" we are
sitting "quite beautifully in the ink"
For we "sowed wind and harvested storm"
"My army of transfer pictures" was no help either.No more……
Now "the oven is out" and
You "made yourself out of the dust"
And all because my "far view picture umbrella
was in the bucket was in the bucket"Yes all because my "far view picture umbrella
was in the bucket was in the bucket"