Alles in de wind

Well, I know it's an old song (a children's song, I think?), but I do think there might yet be some meaning to it.

Seems to me it's about a girl the story-teller likes, considering her a sister ("Je bent m'n zusje, je bent m'n zusje"). I think in the first verse and refrain, they're both still young children. Then, when in the second verse it is said that the singer loses the sister, I think this is meant metaphorically. In fact, they don't actually lose her, but find that she changes and perhaps they do as well (in the refrain, "Je bent een ander, je bent een ander"). Thus "o wat een spijt, o wat een spijt" could refer in some way to the hardships of growing up. Then, when they find her again in the third verse, this might mean that they reconnect as the new people they are, and their relationship is now more mature: a romantic relationship ("Je bent m'n liefje, je bent m'n liefje") (although it seems they still see her a bit as a sister since they say "vond ik m'n zusje terug"). In this way, it might be a sort of coming-of-age song, and it seems quite appropriate that my mom used to sing this song when she was younger while playing a game with her classmates that involved, I believe, picking someone from a circle and kissing them etc.

Admittably, this interpretation doesn't explain the mention of the "schipperskind" (skipper's child) in the first verse. Also, if it really is only metaphorically that the singer loses Rosa, I still have to explain why it is so explicitly said that it is under the bridge that they rediscover Rosa, which seems so literal. For my metaphorical interpretation to make sense, these things should also symbolize something, but I couldn't be sure what, yet.