Born in Ontario [German translation]

You might see me down in Alabama

Or Baton Rouge down in Louisiana

I might make it up to Detroit City

Where people work hard and life is gritty

It don't really matter where I am

It's what I do and what I can

This old world has been good to me

So I try to give back and I want to be free

I was born in Ontario

I was born in Ontario (Ontario)

Ontario, I was born in Ontario (Ontario) Ontario

I still like to sing a happy song

Once in a while when things go wrong

I might pick up a pen, scribble on a page

Try to make sense of my inner rage

One cold winter we went down south

With daddy's typewriter for a couple of months

But I was born in Ontario (Ontario)

I was born in Ontario (Ontario)

Ontario, I was born in Ontario (Ontario) Ontario

I was born in Ontario

Where the black fly bites

And the green grass grows

That's where I learned most of what I know

'Cause you don't learn much when you start to get old

I left home at a tender young age

Mom and daddy never liked to stay

In any one place for very long

We just kept moving, moving on

But I was born in Ontario (Ontario)

I was born in Ontario (Ontario)

Ontario, I was born in Ontario (Ontario) Ontario