99 Luftballons (live)

from Live from Drew's House by The Swashbuckling Doctors

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One of our favorite songs to cover, originally a hastily put-together song to play at a show where we had to come up with a set that exceeded our then limits of known songs. And lo and behold, we've been playing it ever since. Of course we're mostly copying the Goldfinger version of the song which we know and love. Listen for Kate's nod to Kraftwerk on the German verse! And why do we call them Germans when they call themselves Deutsche? Is it because no one can actually pronounce "Deutsche"? I digress. Whatever. Just enjoy the song!

lyrics

You and I, and a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone

Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, "Some thing's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by

Ninety-nine red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic lads, it's a red alert
There's something here from somewhere else

The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by

Ninety-nine Decision Street
Ninety-nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry

This is what we've waiting for
This is it boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As ninety-nine red balloons go by

99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und benzinkanister
Hielten sich fuer schlaue leute
Witterten schon fette beute

Riefen: krieg und wollten macht
Mann, wer haette das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 luftballons



Ninety-nine dreams I have had
Every one a red balloon
Now it's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city

If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go


Ninety-nine red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic lads, it's a red alert
There's something here from somewhere else

The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by

(N) Ninety-nine knights of the air
Riding super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a super hero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk

With orders to identify,
to clarify and classify
Scrambling in the summer sky
As ninety-nine red balloons go by
Ninety-nine red balloons go by

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from Live from Drew's House, released April 1, 2018

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Sail the ska-punk high seas with these Fort Collins-based misfits. Formed in 2010 and still skanking!

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