Wir sitzen alle im selben Boot [English translation]

We're all in this together - la dee la dee o-kay

We're all in this together - la dee la dee o-kay

We're all in this together - la dee la dee o-kay...

Cleopatra reduced big man Caesar

To a little boy in a night

And Ghenghis Khan

Actually fathered only three children

And Schmidt

Got his Strauß1

And Strauß

Got his Schmidt

Napoleon got his Waterloo

There's billions of people on this Earth

And you are one of them - hey hey

We're all in this together - la dee la dee o-kay

We're all in this together - la dee la dee o-kay

Yeah, Cassius Clay is knocking you out

And Khrushchev is banging his shoe

A wallflower is waiting for her man forever

And Heino is singing along

People in the city dream of the quiet countryside

The farmer dreams of the big city

For that's the way it is

Everybody wants what the other one's got - hey hey

We're all in this together - la dee la dee o-kay

We're all in this together - la dee la dee o-kay

And Mona Lisa

Will still be smiling

When we've run out of reasons to smile

And we're singing in German

Even though Germans prefer listening to English these days

Alice2 is talking about feminism

The pastor's talking about celibacy

And that's what they call revolution

And now look where it got us - hey hey

We're all in this together - la dee la dee o-kay

We're all in this together - la dee la dee o-kay

1. German chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his sister party rival Franz-Josef Strauß from the early '80s.2. Alice Schwarzer, German feminist icon.

• Artist:Dschinghis Khan