Kom uit het land... I'm from the country (Come from the country is te letterlijk vertaald)
gouden eeuw => Golden Age
Maar overigens heel knap vertaald!!
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Translation
The Country of
I'm from the country of Pim Fortuyn and Volkert van der G1
The country of Theo van Gogh and Mohammed B2
I'm from the country of croquettes, frikadellers,3
which you can even order on the spanish coast.4
I'm from the country where Air Max5never went out of fashion.
Where they try to break you when you start to become successful.
I'm from the country of The red, white, blue and the golden lion.
Plunder the world and we call it the Golden Age.
I'm from the country of weed plantations and bicycle-4-days6
The country where you can ask a junkie for a bike
The country that became a champion in '887
The country of eating herrings, dikes and canals.
I'm from the country of Lange Fransie8
This is the country where I come home to after a vacation.
I'm from the country where I was born in 19829
Where I lost my guilder to the euro10
The country that participates in the war in Iraq.
Because Uncle Bush has Balkenende11in his pocket
The country of being stingy, because giving a round of drinks is too expensive.
The greasy food from Febo12you can pull them out of the wall
The country of fights between Ajax and Feyenoord13
But when the Oranje14plays, Then we are all one!
The country of Johan Cruyff and Abe Lenstra15
The legion will never let the lion down
The country where we hope for better weather everyday
That Piet Paulusma16 we don't trust him anymore!
The country that's been free since '45
The country where I stay, I love it here
Honestly
I'm from the country, which you can drive through in 3 hours
With a different accent every 10 minutes
I'm from the country where theoretically there's space for everyone
And ecstasy is the number 1 export
I'm from the country where André Hazes17in over 100 years will still be the boss in every bar.
I'm from the country where Peter Gerts, Jan Ramon and Jutter, Frans Bart and Ali18
run the game.
I'm from the country where hip-hop is a 30 year old child.
And you can decide for yourself how cool that is.
The country where when you get rich you'll have to pay a lot.
That will make you think, what's the use of this?
The country where prostitution and smoking weed is allowed.
This is the country where I have lost and where I've been cheated on
I'm from the country where I was born and raised
I'm from the country with the most cultures on one square foot
But people are afraid to have dinner with their neighbours
And integration is a beautiful word
But shit, it's fucking bitter when nobody hears it
I share my country with turks and moroccans, antillieans, amboneses21and surinameses.
The country where we put way too much stuff together
And are represented world wide by Harry Potter22
The country where apartheid is internationally
the most well known word from the dutch language.
I'm from the country that ticks like a time bomb
The country that eats at six o'clock and where the people are still on time.
This is the country where I will win in the end
Until you will sing this with us in the ArenA23
Until that time my heart will be waiting.
This is for The Netherlands, Baas B and Lange Frans
- 1. Pim Fortuyn was a controversial dutch politician and Volkert van der G was the man who murdered him
- 2. Theo van gogh was the great-grandnephew of famous dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, and was a controversial film director. Mohammed B was the name of the man who murdered him
- 3. typical dutch food
- 4. Apparently you can find this type of food in parts of Spain too
- 5. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_Air_Max
- 6. Bicycle-4-days is an event where you can roam the whole country on a bicycle for 4 consecutive days
- 7. The Netherlands won The UEFA European Football Championship in 1988
- 8. The rapper Lange Frans is referring to himself here
- 9. The rapper Baas B is referring to himself here
- 10. the Guilder is the old currency and the euro is the new currency of the netherlands
- 11. Former prime minister of the netherlands
- 12. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEBO
- 13. Two dutch football teams
- 14. dutch national football team
- 15. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Lenstra https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Cruyff
- 16. Piet Paulusma is a famous dutch weatherman
- 17. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Hazes
- 18. Popular Dutch Singers
- 19. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas
- 20. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koningsdag
- 21. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambonese
- 22. former prime minister Balkenende apparently greatly resembled Harry Potter
- 23. Giant football stadium in Amsterdam
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Submitted by Zarina01 on 2017-07-27
Last edited by Zarina01 on 2017-07-31
Translation source:
https://youtu.be/cWMFU9gfu70
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Comments
Spaanse kust - Spanish coast : those 'typically' Dutch snacks can even be bought in Spain (just ignore that 'coast')
bicycle-4-days : http://www.fiets-4daagse.nl/ Event one can participate in roaming the country per bicycle on four consecutive days
Where they try to break you when you start to become sucessful. => successful …
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