From the album Udo Lindenberg "Das Beste." Text by Udo Lindenberg. Recorded at the Power Station, New York, 1980/81.
Submitted by Dennis Miller
My father lived in Germany
Before the war in 1933.
He was a violinist in Berlin's most popular cabaret.
You watched the tide turn dirty brown.
Weren't you afraid that you were gonna drown?
(In your orchestra pit)
While sailor girls sang through the night,
Those silly love songs in the limelight – (how could you stand it)?
Bert Brecht had already left the land.
From cabarets so many had been banned.
The first had been killed by the crowd.
You couldn' hear, the music was too loud.
You should have sold your violin
Or traded it in for a gun…
Rather than fiddlin' the refrain
Doin' cocaine and charmin' ev'ryone.
You should have killed Hitler.
You know you would have been right.
Why didn't you fight?
You should have killed Hitler.
You didn't see behind the curtain,
You didn't try to stop that show.
Was it so nice – your Third Reich paradise –
Where the sailor girls sang…
[enter Nina]
Deutschland – Deutschland uber alles
Tra-la-la – wunderbar – no panic on the Titanic
More cocaine – more champagne – no panic on the Titanic
What a night – out of sight – no panic on the Titanic.
Tra-la-la – wunderbar – no panic on the Titanic.
Nina Hagen Shrine 