Radio 2 Top 2000 deel 3

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Op zondag 29 december 2002 22:11 schreef Jane het volgende:
Weet jij waar het nummer over gaat, Cloudbox?

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Me, I walk along Ste Catherine
Getting the warmth from the Métro
I don't look through shop windows
When it's thirty below zero
We've been in politics for a long time
Twenty years of war against mosquitos

I don't feel intrepid
When it snows I don't go skiing
I don't have a motel in the Laurentians
Sunday night is hockey night*

We've been in politics for a long time
Twenty years of war against mosquitos

Don't think that I'm an fool
Because I don't drive a convertible
The glory is fairly useless
At the price of gas (petrol) it's too distressing

We've been in politics for a long time
Twenty years of war against mosquitos

We're all brothers 'cause we make
sure we always have a good time
Because we're on the earth of men
And women and children

We've been in politics for a long time
Twenty years of war against mosquitos

Don't believe that we're not Christians
On Sundays we walk our dogs

** One line in Kirsty's version is non-sensical, in which she sings, "On s'est sous frappe ça s'adonne" which translates literally as "One is oneself under hit that devotes itself" (!). The line is actually "On est tous frères pis ça s'adonne / qu'on a toujours eu du bon temps" which means "We're all brothers 'cause we devote ourselves to always having a good time".

It would be a bit of a stretch to say "Ste-Catherine" is a song about Montréal politics. The bit about "la politique" is a joke, seeing as the only politics the narrator's interested in is the battle against mosquitos (though admittedly this is a serious enough concern during the Canadian summer!). In my humble opinion, the song just says, I like to have a good time, don't judge me. Source: BB

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Op zondag 29 december 2002 22:47 schreef Jane het volgende:
Oh, dit vind ik zo'n lief liedje van Jim Croce...

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