Welterusten, mijnheer de president
1966 · Decca AT 10198 · Netherlands
- Artist
- Boudewijn de Groot
- Title
- Welterusten, mijnheer de president
- Release
- Welterusten, mijnheer de president / Vrijgezel
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Decca # AT 10198
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Dutch
- Country
- Netherlands
- Genre
- Singer Songwriter · Kleinkunst · Singer Songwriter · Folk Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The song Welterusten, Mijnheer de President (Groot, Boudewijn) Born 20 May 1944, Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia Currently Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (1) (2) Mr President, good night / Sleep well in your beautiful white house / Don't think too much about all those distant shores / Where your boys sit, lonely, far from home / Don't think about those forty-six dead / That mistake the other day with that bombardment / And forget the fourth of those ten commandments / Which you certainly know as a good Christian / Don't think about all those young soldiers on the front / Dying lonely in the far tropical night / Let that soft pacifist clique talk / Mister President, sleep tight / Dream But of victory and victory Dream of your beautiful ideal of peace That has never been obtained by bloody murders Dream but that you will succeed this time Don't think of all those people who screw up / How many women, how many children have been murdered / Dream that you will prevail / And believe not a word of all that opposition / Bayonets with bloody hilts / Keep watch far from here at your command / For the glory and the e r of the free west / Mister president, sleep well / Don't be…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Born 20 May 1944, Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia. Currently Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.