====== Ich Errinere Mich An Weimar / Ich Erinnere Mich an die Weimarer Republik ======

===== Song Info =====

==== Length ====
3:57 / 4:12

==== Year Released ====
1999

==== Versions/Releases ====
  * [[releases:it_s_pumpkin_time|It's Pumpkin Time]]
  * [[releases:east_coast_super_sound_punk_of_today|East Coast Super Sound Punk Of Today!]]
  * [[releases:addicted_to_bad_ideas_peter_lorre_s_twentieth_century|Addicted To Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century]]

===== Lyrics =====

Pirate Jenny she got her revenge\\ 
Hey boys hats off to her\\ 
Sally Bowles she got her man\\ 
And he got really hurt\\ 
Me and my friends had some good ideas\\ 
But I swear that town got so damn weird\\ 
I got out alive in '35\\ 
I don't think I'll ever go back\\ 
But I remember....\\ 

Pirate Jenny let me off the hook\\ 
For one drink I bought for her\\ 
And Sally Bowles used to\\ 
Look at me and sigh\\ 
"If you weren't so poor..."\\ 
It ain't no thing about the promise ring\\ 
And socialists are so boring\\ 
Just a bunch of bullies\\ 
That I can't stand\\ 
They got elected into office by...well, you\\ 

Pirate Jenny she bought the bar\\ 
Now everybody works for her\\ 
And Sally Bowles "Mein Herr" bit took off\\ 
And she's a star\\ 
But the Bully Boys start sitting up in the front\\ 
And the doorman's taking tips\\ 
And suggestions\\ 
I'm getting in fights\\ 
In the places I used to play\\ 
It's like walking through a minefield every day\\ 

"I'm a fag, I'm a Jew, how do you do?\\ 
That's Mister Anarchist to you\\ 
You think your scene's dead?\\ 
Well mine got killed\\ 
By some dimwit's Triumph of the Will\\ 
From the all-ages shows\\ 
To the full wet bars\\ 
To the front line squats of the culture wars\\ 
I'm not gonna hit you with the dogma\\ 
Or the lecturing\\ 
This is a purely personal thing."\\ 

You see, Pirate Jenny\\ 
Didn't have no friends when those bulls\\ 
They came for her\\ 
And Sally Bowles' man\\ 
He got pushed up against the wall\\ 
Now every time I see a Swiss bank I spit\\ 
You say "resist control"?\\ 
Well, I mean it\\ 
Cause it was come as you are\\ 
In the cattle cars\\ 
And not a damn thing you can do about it\\ 
'Cept remember!\\ 

===== References =====
  * Pirate Jenny is the name of a song from "The Threepenny Opera." The song is told from the perspective of a barmaid/innkeeper named Jenny, who fantasizes about a pirate ship attacking her town and helping her exact violent retribution on all the patrons who treat her badly. 
  * Sally Bowles is a secondary character from Christopher Isherwood's "The Berlin Stories," whose role was increased in subsequent adaptations. She is described as an aspiring actress working in a seedy nightclub who dreams of becoming famous or seducing a wealthy man. "Mein Herr" is Sally's introductory song from "Cabaret," the film version of the musical based on Isherwood's stories. 
  * "Triumph of the Will" is the title of an infamous Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl

===== Additional Info =====
  * A new version of the song was recorded for the "Addicted to Bad Ideas" album