This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Sick aach Stund ahm Stüer
Nieselrään un stur jraaduss, naahx öm vier
Un trotzdämm zweiunhalv Stunde noch, unjefähr
Blend du ruisch op
Schloof ich och nit enn, ich dank dir, du Kopp!
Jeschloofe weed doheim em Bett, nevven ihr
Romantisch ess do janix draan
Dat ess Kilometerfresserei un sons nix
Mann, oh Mann, luhr dir dä Tacho ahn
Jraad schlappe Hundert, janz ejal, wie d'en tritts
En andre Kassett
Wo hätt die vum Richards sich bloß widder versteckt?
Na, also
How I wish, that you were here!
En'ner Stund weed et hell
Tass Kaffee, tanke, schnell noch en Frikadell
Ach Leevje, löösch ich doch em Bett nevven dir
Kenn jede Meter Autobahn
Usswendisch zwesche Kiel un Rosenheim
Mann, oh Mann, kenn jede Strouch beim Name
jed Bröck, jede Kilometerstein
Bleifooss de Leitplank lang
Die Naach krüvv vorbei
Un ahn dämm Bleifooss 'ne mööde Mann
Verfluchte A 3.
Bleifooss de Leitplank lang
Des Naahx koot noh vier
Un ahn dämm Bleifooss 'ne mööde Mann
Dä will heim noh dir
Aachunhalv Stund ahm Stüer
Nieselrään un stur jraaduss. Unjefähr
Jetz noch zwei Stund, bess ich doheim vüür der Dühr
Romantisch ess do janix draan
Dat ess Kilometerfresserei un sons nix
Mann, oh Mann, luhr dir dä Tacho ahn
Jraad schlappe Hundert, janz ejal, wie d'en tritts
Bleifooss de Leitplank lang
Die Naach krüvv vorbei
Un ahn dämm Bleifooss 'ne mööde Mann
Verfluchte A 3.
Bleifooss de Leitplank lang
Des Naahx koot noh vier
Un ahn dämm Bleifooss 'ne mööde Mann
Dä will heim noh dir
Nieselrään un stur jraaduss, naahx öm vier
Un trotzdämm zweiunhalv Stunde noch, unjefähr
Blend du ruisch op
Schloof ich och nit enn, ich dank dir, du Kopp!
Jeschloofe weed doheim em Bett, nevven ihr
Romantisch ess do janix draan
Dat ess Kilometerfresserei un sons nix
Mann, oh Mann, luhr dir dä Tacho ahn
Jraad schlappe Hundert, janz ejal, wie d'en tritts
En andre Kassett
Wo hätt die vum Richards sich bloß widder versteckt?
Na, also
How I wish, that you were here!
En'ner Stund weed et hell
Tass Kaffee, tanke, schnell noch en Frikadell
Ach Leevje, löösch ich doch em Bett nevven dir
Kenn jede Meter Autobahn
Usswendisch zwesche Kiel un Rosenheim
Mann, oh Mann, kenn jede Strouch beim Name
jed Bröck, jede Kilometerstein
Bleifooss de Leitplank lang
Die Naach krüvv vorbei
Un ahn dämm Bleifooss 'ne mööde Mann
Verfluchte A 3.
Bleifooss de Leitplank lang
Des Naahx koot noh vier
Un ahn dämm Bleifooss 'ne mööde Mann
Dä will heim noh dir
Aachunhalv Stund ahm Stüer
Nieselrään un stur jraaduss. Unjefähr
Jetz noch zwei Stund, bess ich doheim vüür der Dühr
Romantisch ess do janix draan
Dat ess Kilometerfresserei un sons nix
Mann, oh Mann, luhr dir dä Tacho ahn
Jraad schlappe Hundert, janz ejal, wie d'en tritts
Bleifooss de Leitplank lang
Die Naach krüvv vorbei
Un ahn dämm Bleifooss 'ne mööde Mann
Verfluchte A 3.
Bleifooss de Leitplank lang
Des Naahx koot noh vier
Un ahn dämm Bleifooss 'ne mööde Mann
Dä will heim noh dir
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Bleifooss Lyrics as written by Wolfgang Niedecken Klaus Heuser
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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