Klavier im Fluss [English translation]

On my way home

only my bed on my mind

I just walk along

but all of a sudden I think: I'm nuts!

Suddenly some baloney appears

A Piano's floating in the river

Smiles at me

And floats and floats

A piano's drowning

I just find that baptizing1

Or was the good piece

really not venible anymore?

Oh, what gruesome end,

a piano's floating in the river

and it seemed to me

pretty out of tune2

All the same,

by all means,

what a pity,

now it's going down.

Well, I'd like to know

in whose way that thing might have been?

A piano like that should be under monumental protection.

Oh, what scorn,

a tune floats over the river.

Trout-quintet.

All the same,

by all means,

what a pity,

now it's going down.

All the same,

by all means,

what a pity,

now it's going down.

All the same,

by all means,

what a pity,

now it's going down.

All the same,

by all means,

what a pity,

now it's going down.

Probably it was in Mullers' way

you never know,

or perhaps the new head of the clubhouse

has tossed it away?

Oh, even the spinet

just some space in the double bed

for the pianist

Franz.

All the same,

by all means,

what a pity,

now it's going down.

Someday

it will shatter

no one can put

beer on top of it.

Someday

it will shatter

no one can put

beer on top of it.

1. "täuflich" is a neologism meaning "baptizing", but it sounds a lot like "teuflisch" meaning "diabolical"2. in German "verstimmt" means both "off-tune" and "unhappy"