In Lüneburg war Volksfest

The IRA blew up a department store in Belfast
She didn't ask if there were people in it
In Beirut, violence is pitted against violence that no one controls
In the war of the Bible against the Koran

An arsonist has burned the forest of the Cote d'Azur
The sky flames up in hellish red
The flood hit Bangladesh, the poorest country
A sea on this hot stone of need

And in Lüneburg there was a folk festival and a nice brawl
Between girlfriend and relatives and the police
And in front of the Festspielhaus in Salzburg
Threw such a rabble
The outraged minister, a few eggs on his tails

In Africa, children are in front of the world's cameras
In misery and just born
Zurich was highly praised in the dealer travel guide
Chosen as the first house on Drogenplatz

And the giant empire in the East that crumbles and disintegrates
In favor of a peaceful enemy
In India, history counts after the assassination
And just now it was year one again

And in Lüneburg there was a folk festival
And in Kreuzberg there was a commotion
And on television there was Gottschalk
And in Bruchsal huge traffic jam

And a judge in Palermo lay buried in the rock
With fifty Mafia greetings in his chest
All these could be the events of the whole year
But it was only one page of a newspaper in August

Yes, there was a folk festival in Lüneburg and there was riot in Dresden
At Dynamo against whom against everyone, it doesn't matter
There was trouble in Oberhammergau Virgin Mary was not real
Because she already had two children
Were you the priest were you the servant

Ja da ja da da ja da

And in Lüneburg there was a folk festival
Ja da ja da da ja da