Saturday, December 27, 2008

Herman van Veen - Toveren


This is a classic dutch magic(k)al song, it all rhymes in dutch, translating it literally and still having it rhyme was impossible but I gave it a go, failed miserably throughout lol, but people can try to sing along in english :p, or improve upon it. Dutch lyrics here.

If he knew wizardry
everything'd be fine
If he knew wizardry
everyone'd be divine (literal: nobody'd get too heavy :p)
If he knew wizardry, knew wizardry,
knew wizardry, knew wizardry
then everybody would love each other

Every house had a 100 rooms and every room had tv
and his parents lived forever, and so did he
the river wasn't made of water, but of orange juice
and he shouldn't have to learn what he didn't choose

If he knew wizardry
everything'd be fine (and nobody was hungry)
If he knew wizardry
everyone'd be divine (and everybody singing)
If he knew wizardry, knew wizardry
knew wizardry, knew wizardry
then everybody would love each other

His buddy would suddenly understand
why he got into a fight with him
and as he climbed the trone
everyone would bow for him
and it always snowed in winter
and it was cosy warm
and nobody was born rich
and nobody became poor

If he knew wizardry
everything'd be fine (and nobody was hungry)
If he knew wizardry
everyone'd be divine (and everybody singing)
If he knew wizardry, knew wizardry
knew wizardry, knew wizardry
then everybody would love each other

But for a magic spell of quality
you lose a 1000 guilder casually
and for a bit of a magick book
a search of 50 years is what it took
and the entire curriculum of wizardry
lasts 125 years at least
he won't put up with all of that
I think he'll quit before he starts
cause even the grandma of his grandma
never had a wizardry diploma.

If I knew wizardry
everything'd be fine (and nobody was hungry)
If I knew wizardry
everyone'd be divine (and everybody singing)
If I knew wizardry, knew wizardry
knew wizardry, knew wizardry
then everybody would love each other

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