Sticken in mine haken
sticken in mine haut
fugen mine gas mit mine auss pucken
straightem zee nicht mit
einem duetschen venn zee
mewden sint.

mine auto fairt ser
schnell aber ess rast
gegen mawen

Ya das ben mine
ya das bin du
du das ben ich
fair zuc ess


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    General Comment

    I asked a German friend about these lyrics, and she said they weren't really words, just German-sounding phrases intended to sound as salacious as possible (Schticken in mine hachen...).

    robcbishopon July 01, 2012   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    The lyrics is based on a real story: Grace Slick was in Germany in 1971, when she suffered a car accident.

    "mine auto fairt ser schnell aber ess rast gegen mawen"

    it means "Mein Auto fährt sehr schnell aber es rasst gegen Mauern",

    in English "my car is very fast but is hits against the wall'.

    but the rest doesn't make any sense, just a couple of german sounding words.

    mellow27on October 31, 2013   Link
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    Okay, it's mostly nonsense (or sometimes phonetic) German and I don't speak German (although I took a couple of years in high school), but let's see what can be figured out.

    First off, I'll take the word of the commenter who says there's a reference to slick's car accident.

    Sticken in mine haken/sticken in mine haut

    Sticken is, according to google translate, embroider, shaken is hook, haut is skin.

    Best guess: Assuming this is about a car accident, this would probably be a reference to stitches.

    fugen mine gas mit mine auss pucken

    This is a tough line, with little translatable German. My guess is it's more germanized American for some cursing, which makes sense if she's been in an accident and is getting stitches.

    straightem zee nicht mit einem duetschen venn zee mewden sint.

    Since "nicht mit einem duetschen" is clearly "not with a German" I'm assuming this line translates to the title. Was she arguing with a German who was telling her not to drive so fast? Or with the Germans treating her after the accident?

    From commenter: mine auto fairt ser/schnell aber ess rast/gegen mawen = "Mein Auto fährt sehr schnell aber es rasst gegen Mauern" = "my car is very fast but is hits against the wall'.

    Ya das ben mine/ya das bin du/du das ben ich

    This makes me think of the start of I am the Walrus (I am he as...). It would seem to be something like:

    Yes that is me, yes that is you, you are I.

    Perhaps they gave her a sedative and her thoughts were jumbled?

    fair zuc ess

    There's another one that makes more sense as Germanized English, in which case it would probably be "fair success." Perhaps a description of how well she was stitched up? Or her prognosis?

    So:

    They gave me stitches. F*ck me up the a**! I shouldn't have argued with the German while I was tired. My car is very fast but it hit against the wall. Yes that is me, yes that is you, you are I. Fair success.

    charles84yon January 26, 2021   Link

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