Wo Ist Der Schnee Vom Vergangenen Jahr
Ulrich Roski
Where Is the Snow from Last Year
By the fireplace sits the old lady Countess dreaming
Of lost goods in the Greater German Reich
What has been granted to her as a replacement
A few measly acres in the redistribution of land!
Thoughtfully sucking on a candy
And thinking of the words of the old Villon:
Where is the snow from last year?
Where is the snow from last year?
Where are the snows, the snows of yesteryear?
In the past, one didn't stand in the discount store
Bread and milk were delivered daily
The grocer, he was a modest man
You paid almost nothing and still got something back
The servants cowered and obeyed
An apprentice learned, a student studied
Where is the snow from last year?
Where is the snow from last year?
Where are the snows, the snows of yesteryear?
In the past, everything was still sensibly managed
One walked their path, everyone knew their goal
In the past, murderers were hanged
In the past, there were gentlemen who still had style
In the past, there was still custom and law
A gentleman was a gentleman, and a servant was a servant
Where is the snow from last year?
Where is the snow from last year?
Where are the snows, the snows of yesteryear?
In the past, the egg didn't consider itself smarter
Than the useful hen it was in
In the past, everything was much bigger and wider
In the past, everything tasted much better
Then she sees her snow-white hair in the mirror -
She is also not what she used to be
Where is the snow from last year?
Where is the snow from last year?
Where are the snows, the snows of yesteryear?
Where is the snow from last year?
