Nordisch by nature [English translation]

Shipmaster:

one, two, one two three

Say "hey," say "ho"

this is Fettes Brot in Platt¹ in the Disco

Yo I'm the guy in the aft² with the turntable³

I shout a lot of Platt in the microphone

if you're not from the north, it's hard to understand

I lay the beats like the Störtebeker's⁴ crew

In the north, we don't call it a "disco" but instead "dans op de deel"⁵

I live on the water, we all do,

and there we all say "hummel hummel mors mors!"⁶

I'm out, the ship master is like the others: northern by nature

Gaze:

Tell me, do you know what life gives me here?

What it usually means when your destiny misleads you?

And in the morning you forget your sandwiches on the kitchen table

But you realize you lost them when you got to Blohm and Voss⁷

it's not as easy as you think, my boy

it's a shit work and makes your back crooked

it's hard enough, and we don't punch each other as much

And if we cut down our times, then a Holsten⁸ in the gut

Mao Tse Tung was never a subject with us

Mom said, "Politicians, they come and go,

importantly, my boy, being serious

those in the south eat fish sticks, and we eat salmon!

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!

Tobi & Bo:

here come your heroes

Tobi & Bo please report

yo here comes disco like Saturday Night, as in John Travolta

helter-skelter the bass pumps to the Upper Volta⁹

hello people we are here in the one hand a micro

in the other a beer, we hear our music very loud

hey girly do you wanna be my bride?

night fever, night fever, here with us in the north uuh yeah!

always more night fever, night fever here with us in the north! uuh yeah!

Us in the north naturally seduce you disco-maniacally, panicked, fully enraged

with our ear drum massage, no embarrassment in this passage

'cause the disco ball Tobi-tob always runs

when I'm practicing at the mic and the laserdancer MK Bo steals the show

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!

Hey Rabauke! Where will the the dance-leg swing?

(DJ Rabauke) with us Northerners!

Renz:

yeah, I was at a young age born at the water's edge

Moin!¹⁰ the stiff breeze from fore¹¹ always gives me cold ears

I go barhopping every evening

it comes first from the back, when all my money is gone

Hey dude¹², move out of my sunlight!

I am what I am, all the scalawags come after me

Come on up to see the North

There's always something going on behind the dikes

The taste's not great but I don't care

You're probably not a Schnimp¹³

Watch out, you weirdo, you'll get made fun of

König Boris:

I love the ships, the sea, and the harbor

I love falling asleep stoned on the beach of the Elbe after a party

I'm a Hamburg boy and I come in full-swing

when I bounce and jump and sing about Hamburg

Saturday night - a Schnapps and cool blondes

on the fly, another fish cake

Störtebeke already knew the north rocks

so he docked his boat here

You heard right, it's disco time

Why? Because everyone's screaming for disco

You wonder if I'm telling the truth?

Well of course, because I'm northern by nature!

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!

Eißfeldt:

the disco beat is right up my alley

because I'm a disco-sixer

Oh, I sing, Eißfeldt of the water's edge

sends his disco vibration over the whole country

Northern Lights like me are none too keen

to comply with rules pronounced by any court

No, he breaks the norm and the laws skillfully

That's why it's just flat land but a wide horizon

not born in Jamaica but roll off the tongue

it's a no-brainer for a Hamburg boy¹⁴

bede bey bey bede bey bey come follow me!

I drink Holsten and I love St. Pauli¹⁵!

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!

DJ Rabauke: dance with me, Marie!

Fischmob:

yo Koze and Kozmic are in the house

pull off your house shoes and pull on your dancing shoes

we got another funky rap for you

from the south to the west to the east to the north

come on fischmob go off an' go off an' go off an' go off!

here comes a rap in the cornfield

and if you fall to the front

know you hold the grain which he promises

Water does not promise to

because water can't speak, but break dams

Dams that break under the flooding of the North Sea

and I run away when I see a murder

"run run" calls behind my trainer

"you should not take up running with the guys from the dumpster!"

now we are behind the wheel and holding determined, not the beak

unless you pull it out the Mikrofonka

we got the fever! Saturday night fever, night fever, fever thermometer!

Saturday night fever, night fever, fever thermometer!

MK Cram:

No, hey, MK Cram, and let me start now,

Northern By Nature, do you understand that?

At the microphone with my words

I'm really quick, do you hear it fast?

I come to Germany, got an accent, but that's nothing

I am, in spite of everything, an entire man you don't know,

but he runs all day and all night,

still waiting a moment

Northern By Nature, and I'm gonna save your day.

Super Mario:

Hey hey hey all hands on microphone

bucking the king from his crown

give Renz a Flensburger¹⁶

And push the ship on a reef.

It's me, the engineer, meander 'round a maze

like a cable, I'm not dumb

Huh, I've got a cover like a crab and am researching as a cod

just Northerner at the mixing table

pure blossom & april fish are my ears

because I'm also born

in the country yeah and that's in the tabloids

my hometown Hamburg

yeah laugh quietly, but don't say anything when I mix up and you trick out

I'm only fix due to my northern nature

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!

Tabula Rasa:

we're northern, not just northern but the northernmost

Tabula Rasa - this is he, he, I, who I am

locally literally defined by Flensburg

I hope it does not bother you if I took time from Hamburg

with the pitchfork in hand, we often stand at the the sandy Baltic beach

look at the blue gray waves - familiar country

the north the north the north turn it up,

watch me walk on the water, not drowning

I'm always cold, and always have the flu

blowing my nose, when it once again drips

got something you need to get out

both snot and the Danish language

We both - Danish rhymes, disco, Donnebrog¹⁷

Believe it, because we live south of the border

Tabula Rasa, we are here, we give you the chance

We give the song that extra something with our amazing rap

The rhyme flows, oh - you could feel the train?

Because what you enjoyed was Fettes Brot

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!

Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!