It's 12 o'clock in the night
Outside a storm is going
knells are rining
Again somebody
gotta get burried
Death is a fair man
Nomatter if you're poor or rich
"Dead means dead"
Says the worm
AS a corps everybody's the same
You can be lazy all your life long
Or being busy as hell
Five days after death has got you
Everybody stars to
To rot
And how I'm talking here like that
About the Grim Reaper
am I hearing outside someone screaming
Alk is freezing in your veins
"Everybody"
"Everybody"
Black Coat, black hat
A scary figure!
And he's got a scythe
And an egg timer!
Slowly getting closer
Knocking on the door
I'm smelling an aspiration of murder
And he says to me
"Hello!
I'm death!
Over's your distress
Come-- you're time has passed
C'mon don't fuss
It's me--
Godfather Death!
I'm answering to the Godfather
"Come in and come closer
but I don't by a scrythe
I've got a lawnmower!"
"You gotta be starving
You're just bones
Shall i cook a "Jägertee"*
or a soup?"
He takes the first tea, then the next and the next
He's tossing it down into his carcasse
But he's only burning his theeth
Cause he's missing his lips!
But then he takes his egg timer
My hear are standing strait
He knocks on my shoulder
Conceiving himself again
"Hello!
I'm death!
...
He sharpens his scythe
"Before I start to mow you down
Go get me another Jägertee
One last Jägertee
But after the fifth drink
Is guy getting easier
He's shaking his bones
And steps on the "homebody"**
"Everybody!"
"Ev-ev-ev-everybody!"
"Listen it's a mistake
My name's not everybody!
you gotta go to Salzburg
Cause there death lives!"
I'm taking him to the train station
Train after train I have to carry him
I'm bying him a ticket
And am taking him to the diner
The train takes off
I'm feeling light
I'm waving
He wiggles his scythe
And says the the canteen operator
"Hello!"
"I am death!"
"Over's your distress!"
"Come brother, come!"
"Get me a Jägatee,
but with much rum!"
*(hunter's tee) black tea and rum
**little chaire, to put one's feet on for example, or in the old times common to be put in front of cow to sit on during milking, about sural high