Translation of the song lyrics Kam zmizel ten starý song (What Have They Done To My Song Ma) - Helena Vondráčková, Melanie, Zdenek Borovec

Kam zmizel ten starý song (What Have They Done To My Song Ma) (original)

Kam zmizel můj dobrý přítel?
Kam zmizel ten starý song?
Nehrál se hodně let, vy přece znáte svět
A tak možná někdo víte
Kam zmizel ten starý song
Louis Armstrong jej kdysi hrál i jiní
Kam zmizel ten starý song?
Novou píseň hleď, tu zpívám teď
A ač ji ráda mám, stejně při ní
Slyším ten starý song
Pan Kainar text k němu psával
Kam zmizel ten starý song?
jé
Ten text nebyl škvár, ne nezestárl a tak
Věděla bych ráda
Kam zmizel ten starý song?
To snad už je osud písní
Zmizet jak míček na ping-pong
Když jim došel dech, tak v archívech
V šuplíku se tísní
Tak končí snad každý song
Hmm…
Kam zmizel můj dobrý přítel?
Nevíte, kam zmizel ten starý song?
Máte vlastní svět
Je vám šestnáct let
A dnes už neslyšíte
Jak tenkrát zněl starý song
La la la lá, la la lá lá
La la la lá, la la lá á
Byl kdysi swing a jazz
Ale dnes je dnes
Voda pryč co vzala, to vzala
S ní zmizel ten starý song…
Tak zpívej
Ať slunce dál pořád sálá
Ten pevný bod, zlatý gong, ou jé
Až jednou budeš chtít
Slyšet svou dnešný píseň znít
Řeknu: lalalala, voda vzala
Tak jako ten starý song

Kam zmizel ten starý song (What Have They Done To My Song Ma) (translation)

Where did my good friend go?
Where did the old song go?
He hasn't played for many years, you know the world
So maybe someone you know
Where did the old song go?
Louis Armstrong was once played by others
Where did the old song go?
Look at the new song, I'm singing here now
And although I like her, I still have her
I hear that old song
Mr Kainar wrote the text to him
Where did the old song go?
Yippee
The text wasn't slag, it didn't age and stuff
I'd like to know
Where did the old song go?
Maybe that's the fate of the songs
Disappear like a ping-pong ball
When they ran out of breath, they were in the archives
She's crammed into a drawer
That's how every song ends
Hmm…
Where did my good friend go?
Don't you know where the old song went?
You have your own world
You are sixteen years old
And you can't hear today
How the old song sounded then
La la la la, la la la la
La la la la, la la la á
He used to be swing and jazz
But today is today
The water gone what she took, she took it
The old song disappeared with her…
So sing
Keep the sun shining
That fixed point, the golden gong, oh yeah
Once you want
Hear your song today to sound
I will say: lalalala, the water has taken
Like that old song