Jaromír Nohavica - Gaudeamus igitur (ENG)

The maids went ahead

Completely barefooted

bearing Death´s effigy

The boys came after

With concealed flowers

and caps tilted slightly



Ref:

The geldings neighed behind their bars

The raven crowed the dawn hour

Behind that little barn of ours

Gaudeamus igitur



And when the wind had climbed

Death looked like a pine

completely left behind

It rattled through the trees

winter was unkind

the land lay in the freeze



Ref:

The geldings neighed behind their bars

The raven crowed the dawn hour

Behind that little barn of ours

Gaudeamus igitur



A procession of spring

Dressed as a nursling

that was slowing shifting

Their mouths were steaming

And the ice was jingling

T´was the Day of Three Kings



Ref:

The geldings neighed behind their bars

The raven crowed the dawn hour

Behind that little barn of ours

Gaudeamus igitur



The maids and boys fled

The ice patches were cold

but their hopes couldn´t freeze

Two bells sounded

One was for the constables

The other for the theives



Ref:

The geldings neighed behind their bars

The raven crowed the dawn hour

Behind that little barn of ours

Gaudeamus igitur