Father You Should Have Killed Hitler Songtext

von Udo Lindenberg

Father you should have killed.. 1981Father you should have killed Hitler (Grande Finale engl.)Father you should have killed.. 1981My father lived in Germany before the war in 1933He was a violinist in Berlin's most popular cabaret"You watched the tide turn dirty brownweren't you afraid you were gonna drownin your orchestrapitwhile sailorgirls sang through the nightthose silly lovesongs in the limelighthow could you stand it?"Bert Brecht already left the landfrom cabarets so many had been bannedthe first had been killed by the crowdyou couldn't hear the music was too loudyou should have sold your violinor traded it in for a gunrather than fiddling the refraindoing cocaine and charming ev'ryoneYou should have killed Hitleryou know you would have been rightwhy didn't you fight?You should have killed Hitleryou didn't see behind the curtainyou didn't try to stop that showwas it so nice your Third-Reich-paradisewhere the sailorgirls sang: Deutschland, Deutschland über allestralala, wunderbarno panic on the Titanicyou should have sold your violinor traded it in for a gunrather than fiddling the refraindoing cocaine and charming ev'ryoneYou should have killed Hitleryou know you would have been rightwhy didn't you fight?You should have killed Hitlerhey dad, you didn't see behind the curtainyou didn't try to stop that showwas it so nice your Third-Reich-paradisewhere the sailorgirls sang:Deutschland, Deutschland über allestralala, wunderbarno panic on the Titanicfeel alright - what a nightno panic on the Titanicmore champagne - more cocaineno panic on the Titanicwhat a night - out of sightno panic on the Titanictralala, wunderbarno panic...