Viljandi Folk 2023 summer
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Rotterdam
Muusika ja sõnad: Rahvalik. Laulnud Kaljo Veervald Virumaalt, esitanud ansambel Kukerpillid.
Seade: Curly Strings
Rotterdam
Translation by Jaan Jaago
(a traditional sea shanty)
The first mate is always too cheap to have a drink -
He wants to bring all his earnings back to his homeland.
Farewell, Molly, for there is strength in the wind and our course is set for Rotterdam.
The captain, that old seabear, was drunk as a skunk -
He fell asleep under the mast, while a storm raged outside.
The boatswain is like a silent old geezer when he’s sober,
But get him drunk and he’ll be so loud that the bunk-beds jump up against the wall.
The chef’s porridge got burned, it didn’t bode well.
To make amends, the chef’s old shirt was hoisted up into the mast.
When the chef’s old shirt was waving high above,
Everyone was sure it meant that the end of times was nigh.
7 ноя 2023
