Geoff Berner - In Ale Gasn [Daloy Polizei! / A.C.A.B!] 

I've played a lot of places, and I'll play them all again,
And everywhere I go I hear the same old thing again:
Somebody dies in police custody,
Soon there are questions from the family.
At first the situation makes the lawmen look so filthy,
But they investigate themselves and it turns out that they're not guilty
.
Hey, hey, Daloy Polizei
Means the same thing now as yesterday.
Out of your houses, into the streets,
Everybody say, “Fuck the police!”
Ian Bush's parents didn't know he was a killer
When Constable Koestler took him in for an open can of "Miller".
The video at the station house, it somehow got erased
But the bull was there so we can know exactly what took place:
The boy jumped on his back, but the cop was quick instead,
He reached around and shot him, right in the back of the head.
Koestler would not demonstrate just how this thing was done.
If you think that it's impossible, then the coroner's not alone
Hey, hey, Daloy Polizei...
There must be something magic down in the holding cells,
Cause there's stuff that happens there that just don't happen nowhere else.
Healthy people dying from a sudden heart attack,
Men who hang themselves with their hands tied behind their back.
There's lots of good and brave police, it must be true, I guess--
It's brave to work with a murderer sipping coffee by your desk.
Hey, hey, Daloy Polizei...
Original & Translation:
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אין אַלע גאַסן, וווּ מען גייט,
הערט מען זאַבאַסטאָווקעס.
ייִנגלעך, מיידלעך, קינד־און־קייט,
שמועסן פֿון נאַבאָווקעס.
גענוג שוין, ברידער, האָרעווען,
גענוג שוין באָרגן־לײַען,
מאַכט אַ זאַבאַסטאָווקע,
לאָמיר, ברידער, זיך באַפֿרײַען!
ברידער און שוועסטער,
לאָמיר זיך געבן די הענט,
לאָמיר מיקאָלײַקעלען
צעברעכן די ווענט!
היי, היי, דאָלוי פּאָליציי,
דאָלוי סאַמאָדערזשאַוויע וו׳ראָסיי!
ברידער און שוועסטער,
לאָמיר גיין צוזאַמען.
לאָמיר מיקאָלײַקעלען
באַגראָבן מיט דער מאַמען!
היי, היי, דאָלוי פּאָליציי,
דאָלוי סאַמאָדערזשאַוויע וו׳ראָסיי!
נעכטן האָט ער געפֿירט
אַ וועגעלע מיסט,
הײַנט איז ער געוואָרן
אַ קאַפּיטאַליסט.
היי, היי, דאָלוי פּאָליציי,
דאָלוי סאַמאָדערזשאַוויע וו׳ראָסיי!
"In Ale Gasn" (yi. אין אַלע גאַסן; en. "On Every Road"), also called "Daloy Politsey" (yi. דאָלוי פּאָליציי; en. "Down with the Police") and sometimes referred in English as "Everywhere You Go" or "Fuck the Police", is a Yiddish propaganda folk song. It is about the political struggles of socialist, communist and anarchist Jews in Russia and Poland between the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The song was originally a combination of two separate songs-"In Ale Gasn" and "Hey Hey Daloy Politsey"-arranged by Zalmen Mlotek, a conductor and arranger of Yiddish folk and theater music. The first two verses come from "In Ale Gasn", a labor song about the exploitation of Jewish workers which then they strike against. The last two lines of each verse are sung twice. It appears in two collections of Yiddish folk songs: Skuditsky and Beregovski.
The rest of the verses come from "Hey Hey Daloy Politsey", which appears in Skuditsky and Lehman.It was probably gathered by Lehman around 1905. The chorus contains the words "Hey Hey Daloy Politsey", which was sung (often shouted and exclaimed) by the crowd. Besides the police, many verses also attack Nicholas II of Russia (who is referred to as "Little Tsar Nikolay" or "Nicky"). It is a working-class song that is generally sung in an anarchist manner. These may be connected to more radical sections of the Labor Bund or to smaller groups of Jewish anarchists. There are many variants of the song.
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