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Hier findet ihr alle Songtexte und Autorenangaben zu den Liedern meines Albums „Red and Grey“.
1. Hannes, Hannes (Instrumental)
(Musik: Andreas Köpke)
2. Red and Grey
(Text & Musik: Andreas Köpke)
If you ‘d come here to cut off my roof
to take a look into my head at my brain
don’t be so sure about the colour, don’t you?
if you expect just one more shade of grey
I’m still „red“ in my brain
the odd rebel rouser
my hair turning grey
a healthy carouser
a four letter word
on a red-letter day
will keep them away
a four letter word
on a red-letter day
will keep the zombies away
they just can’t handle it the way I am
but I don’t feel I should be somebody else
the people’s flag is still the deepest red,
I’m only trying to be be true to myself!
Most times I’m used to be a bit in the red
that’s why I always live from hand to mouth
Don’t want to quit with going on like that
one of the living in the zombie crowd
3. Mayda
(Text & Musik: Andreas Köpke)
I woke up in a dream last night
and was adrift out on the waves
breezeless sails hanging from the spars
but a current kept my boat under way
the deep blue sea turned into beautiful green
there was this island like a dream
being dragged along I could’nt reach dry land
right now I know what my eyes had seen
nobody ‘s ever seen you twice
please let me be the one
Mayda, you beautiful island in the sun
I’ll sail the oceans for a second chance
if you’ll let me be the one
Oh Mayda, beautiful island here I come
they say your function was to be not existing
but I deeply doubt their deal
more than fife hundred years you were charted
who can say that you’ver never been seen?
Maybe you disappeared to make room
for what is a now a bigger mass of land
but I will wake up in my dreams at nights
only to find you are perfectly there
When first I saw you it was in my dreams
can’t you make these things come true
I would come to be your lighthouse keeper
your discoverer – and your crew
Your name is known – to all of us sailors
who walk your shores in their dreams
I’ll be unable to let go of these dreams
for the rest of my life as it seems
4. Sailing Home
(Text & Musik: Andreas Köpke)
spit against the wind while everybody else
is putting in a reef or heading home.
You’re so proud that your wooden leg is made,
is made of oak all on your own.
tonight we’re sailing to India
tonight we’re sailing to France
tonight we’re sailing to Canada
tonight we’re all sailing home
you never stepped on board a ship like her,
you never climbed a mast so tall.
her tops’l'll stand a blow of eight or more,
see the people cheer when she’s outward bound.
you’ll haul away you’ll walk the capstan ’round,
you’ll make her sail, you’ll make her go!
A tall ship and a star to steer her by,
is all you ask, it’s written down!
5. Breakfast in Bed (Instrumental)
(Musik: Andreas Köpke)
6. Sail On!
(Text & Musik: Andreas Köpke)
I know a man, he was tryin’ to tune in on a mermaid
Trying to tune in on a girl without
A girl without a tune
Now he’s fine, renewing a love after 30 years time
Rebuilding his life after trouble and strife
Sail on! Good man! Sail on!
Sail on, sail on!
How long will we carry on?
like two brothers in one song,
sail on!
See him now, escaping his old life and business
took no wine, or money just him as he was
in search of brighter days
I know a man, unable to swim in dark waters
For fear there might be something reaching for him
Out from the deep below
Still this man, afraid of the deep, sails the oceans
Daring and proud in the tall and the small
Sail on! Good man! Sail on!
7. You Never Knew
(Text & Musik: Andreas Köpke)
I was sixteen, you joined the jouth club I went sailing with
You never knew I fell in love
On weekends we sailed out to places well around
You never knew I fell in love
And in the evenings how I wished you’d sit beside me
You never knew I fell in love
We were holding hands, were cheek to cheek, I think we kissed…
You never knew I fell in love
You never knew I fell in love
You never knew I fell in love with you
Once on dry land our closeness had quite gone away
Okay, I never dared to speak and let you know
Maybe you even thought that I was quite alright
But there was a nicer boy next door
Maybe you feared I was just a bigmouth and a shoutoff
I saw you yesterday like every now and then
This time sat down, to write this song
I’m a happy man today, now I’m looking back and smile
You never knew I fell in love
You never knew I fell in love with you
Or did you know I fell in love?
Or did you know I fell in love with you?
8. Silly Ukulele Song
(Text & Musik: Andreas Köpke)
Maybe 10 o’ clock in the morning
sand between my teeth and in my hands
what a beautiful island!
where are my shipmates gone?
Behind me lies the wreck
I’ve got to swim there and dive down
get all those muskets, nails and cans
to be able to make it through the week
because
Soon enough it will be friday
and she’ll be coming round those rocks
walk up through the trees and then
I know that she will call me „friday“
maybe I don’t understand
but she will take me by the hand
the sun is burning down
but things are getting into shape here
a sweet wooden home up in a tree
and a fire burning nicely
got loads of things out of the hold
tools and hooks and salt and gold
and everything seems nicely done
and now the weekend it may come
Friday morning ship in sight
soon a boat is lowered they say I’m saved
I look over to the island
I can see a woman standing there
she’s now walking round those rocks and then moves
slowly through the trees
somethings makes her stop and look
out across the bay…
9. De Hamborger Veermaster
(trad. arr. Andreas Köpke)
Ick heff mol en Hamborger Veermaster sehn,
De Masten so scheep as den Schipper sien Been,
Dat Deck weer vun Isen, vull Schiet und vull Smeer.
“Rein Schipp” weer den Käpten sien grötstet Pläseer.
Dat Logis rüük na Doot, de Kombüs weer vull Dreck,
De Beschüten, de leepen vun sülben all weg.
De Kaffee weer as Oil, un de Speck weer vull Maden.
Und Gras geev dat blots op’n Wiehnachten Abend.
Un wulln wi mol seiln, Ick segg dat jo nur,
Leep se dree vörut und veer retur.
Und as dat Schipp so weer ook de Kaptein,
De Lüüd för dat Schipp weern blots schangheit.
Blow Boys blow,
for Californio
there is plenty of gold,
so I am told
on the banks of Sacramento
10. Tønder Skies (Instrumental)
(Musik: Andreas Köpke)
11. Sail my Boat
(Text & Musik: Andreas Köpke)
Sail my boat if you feel like singing
singing in harmony
with the waves own melody
sail my boat if you feel like saying,
saying that you long to be
out on the bay with me
come and untie her sails
and she will spread her wings
and fly
sail my boat if you feel like swaying
or go drifting on the bay
cut through the kittywakes
sail my boat if you feel like knowing
knowing where you’re heading for
where your needle’s pointing to
sail my boat if you feel like dancing
waltzing the flowing tide
into the stars tonight
sail my boat if you feel like dancing
into the fading light,
tonight, tonight’s the night!
sail my boat if you feel like sailing,
on a cold and stormy night
white horses dancing bright
sail my boat if you feel like flying
flying with the cooling spray
on a bright and sunny day
come and untie her sails
and she will spread her wings
and fly
so, come and spread your wings
come on and spread your wings
and fly
12. Oceans and Places
(Text & Musik: Andreas Köpke)
Here we both stand by the side of the sea
have you heard about the ship that is bound for Mauii
that is bound for Mauii today?
that is bound for Mauii today?
here we haul away, sing a song, feel the spray
work with needle, brush or stone ’til the end of the day
’til the end of the day, my friend
’til the end of the day, my friend
’til the end of the day
stay if you want to stay,
or take me with you on your way
there are oceans, there are places
take me with you on your way
here we drift away, while the tide is running out
we could easily capsize and we both will get drowned
and we both will get drowned, my friend?
and we both will get drowned, my friend?
here we both wait by the side of a road
is there a car coming up that will take us back home
that will take us back home, my friend?
that will take us back home, my friend?
that will take us back home
Here we lie and listen to the sound of the wind
could I wish a better place to be with you again
to be with you again, my friend?
to be with you again, my friend?
Here we both stand by the side of the sea
have you heard about a ship that is bound for Mauii
that is bound for Mauii today?
that is bound for Mauii today?
that is bound for Mauii
13. Brighter Days
(Text & Musik: Andreas Köpke)
We’ll be leaving this town at the break of day,
haul away, haul away!
We’ve come a long way and we’ll sail a long way,
in search of brighter days.
We’ve seen faces smile, left them with all we had,
haul away, haul away!
With stories and lies, so plenty, good and bad,
in search of brighter days.
This old town looks like any other town to me!
This old town looks like any other town, can’t you see?
When the old man said, „we’re bound for Hamburg quay“,
haul away, haul away!
We never knew how we would end up here,
in search of brighter days.
With bulwarks smashed, our decks and rig in a mess,
haul away, haul away!
That would take a few days to have it fixed and dressed,
in search of brighter days.
Half a voyage’s pay seemed like it’s gone in a flash,
haul away, haul away!
This town took our best for fun and booze in cash,
in search of brighter days.
We’ll pray for brighter days in sunny ports and towns,
haul away, haul away!
And for hopes like this we’ll sail the whole world ’round,
in search of brighter days.
14. The Greenland Whale Fishery
(Text: trad. / Musik: Andreas Köpke)
In eighteen hundred and seventy four
On March the eighteenth day
We hoisted our colors to the top of the mast
And for Greenland bore away, brave boys
And for Greenland bore away
The lookout on the mainmast he stood
A spyglass in his hand
There’s a whale, there’s a whale
And a whalefish he cried
And she blows at every span, brave boys
And she blows at every span
Our captain stood on the quarter deck
The ice was in his eye
Overhaul, overhaul! Let your jib sheets fall
And go put your boats to sea, brave boys
And go put your boats to sea
The boats were lowered and the men pulled out
the whale was full in view
Resolved, resolved was each whaleman bold,
For to steer where the whalefish blew, brave boys
For to steer where the whalefish blew
Our harpoon struck and the lines payed out
With one single flourish of his tail
He capsized our boat and we lost five men
And we did not catch that whale, brave boys
And we did not catch that whale
Up Anchor now, our captain he cried,
for the winter stars do appear.
And it’s time we left this cold country,
And for the homelands we did steer, brave boys,
For the homelands we did steer
The losing of them five jolly men
It grieved our captain sore
But the losing of that sperm whale fish
Oh, it grieved him ten times more, brave boys
Oh, it grieved him ten times more
Now Greenland is a barren land
A land that bears no green
Where there’s ice and snow, and the whalefishes blow
And the daylight’s seldom seen, brave boys
And the daylight’s seldom seen