Hei Joe [English translation]

Good luck is around the corner

Oh bummer

There are so many corners

To peek around

A man once went to a shoe shop

Said I'll have this pair

What does it matter what kind of paths

They will take me to

Maybe they'll take me to where the sun don't shine

Because for a dime you can get so many things

Watch your step closely

Who you fall in love with

Don't take a bird out of its gilded cage

Nor a pig from a poke

I once knew a girl who looked at her life in a rear-view mirror

She saw her future by viewing her yesterday

She said everything's alright but there is something I don't get

Why everything that happens to me seems to ring a bell?

Hey Joe, where you goin' with that dime in your hand

Don't put it in the record machine

Don't play this song

Admit that a bad dime won't make your life better

Except if you got more than two it's swell!

You can't buy poverty

This is a poor man's revenge

If money can't buy you anything

Let them keep their money

However, we found the poorest man in the world from Cromwell

Who was looking at the world from the bottom of a well

He said, like before, they all look down on me

But at night I could see the starry sky between their stupid heads

Hey Joe, where you goin' with that dime in your hand

Don't put it in the record machine

Don't play this song

Admit that a bad dime won't make your life better

Except if you got more than two it's swell!