@ALBUM: In The Dutch Mountains (1987) The Nits are: Joke Geraets Double bass Henk Hofstede Vocals, guitar Rob Kloet Drums Robert Jan Stips Keyboards Uploaded by Pascal Mouret (mouret(at)lim.univ-mrs.fr) Last revision date : 23 Feb 95 @SONG: In The Dutch Mountains (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) I was born in the valley of bricks Where the river runs high above the rooftops I was waiting for the cars coming home late at night From the Dutch mountains I was standing in the valley of rock Up to my belly in an early fog I was looking for the road to a green painted house In the Dutch mountains In the Dutch mountains Mountains I met a woman in the valley of stone She was painting roses on the walls of her home And the moon is a coin with the head of the queen Of the Dutch mountains Mountains I lost a button of my shirt today It fell on the ground And it was rolling away Like a trail leading me back To the Dutch mountains To the Dutch mountains Mountains I met a miller on the back of a cow He was looking for the wind but he didn't know how I said: Follow the cloud that looks like a sheep In the Dutch mountains In the Dutch mountains In the Dutch mountains Mountains Mountains Buildings @SONG: J.O.S. Days (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) The war monument is still standing Between two football fields With the name of the men killed on the battle fields They were center forwards, keepers and backs They thought they would win It's a family tradition To play in a football team I have nephews, dumb but tall Who, still foetus, kicked the ball I've got flat feet and my knees are weak They all thought it was time to start my J.O.S. days J.O.S. days The last war in this country The fighting lasted four days I see one name again He had my age and my first name He thought he would win like in his J.O.S days J.O.S. days They had too many boys Who wanted to be in a team So in one day, in one match You had to prove your ability I was knocked out, a real disgrace A break with the family tradition of the J.O.S. days J.O.S. days I can live without a finger I can live without a toe But the head is necessary @SONG: Two Skaters (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Two skaters on an icecream floor And one of them fell on the ground This is what she has been waiting for Till one of them fell down Your sister in Canada Is sending a gun and one pair of skates The gun is not real, the shoes are too large You load it and wait Two skaters on an icecream floor And one of them fell on the ground This is what she has been waiting for Till one of them fell down Your sister in brown shoes Is walking down the street as it begins to snow Your sister in Montreal Is sending an LP of the Velvet Underground We're steaming the walls of your brothers old room Peel slowly and listen Two skaters on an icecream floor And one of them fell on the ground @SONG: Pelican & Penguin (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) My aunt is living in the country in a house by the water That's the place where I learned to swim When the uncle was still living he kept his prize winning chickens That looked like waiters in black & white I was sleeping in the attic between the preservation bottles And my cousin with peroxidized hair The boys next door were standing on a tyre of an aeroplane In the middle of the river in their Sunday suits Pelican & Penguin you are wakening me up My uncle he was reading lots of pocket books He had one shelf for Penguin and one shelf for Pelican When he was dead and buried my aunt gave me the books She didn't care too much for reading And nowadays when I travel I always take one of each I look at the back and make my choice @SONG: In A Play (Das Maedchen im Pelz) (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) In a play where the actors die You told me you were thinking of The clothes-line in the attic In a play when the shirts are dry You showed him the vaccination mark On your upper arm I will try to frame your face I will try to speak your name Das Maedchen im Pelz The elevator's gone In a plane where the stewards charm You told me you were falling Out of the highest tree in the world In a plane flying to Helsinki Somewhere in a forest A tree is falling down I will try to frame your face I will try to speak your name Das Maedchen im Pelz The elevator's gone In a play where the actors die You told me you were thinking of A bathroom hung with dripping blouses @SONG: Oom-pah-pah (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Dance with me baby I'm falling Dance with me baby I'm falling I'm falling asleep in your arms tonight Dance with me baby I'm falling Catch me my baby I'm falling Out of a tree into your arms Catch me my baby I'm falling asleep in your arms tonight Oom-pah-pah men in the bone-caves Oom-pah-pah men get up late Don't open the cupboard Don't open the door I'm afraid @SONG: The Panorama man (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Who brings the cars of Michel Valliant Who brings Archie 'the man of steel' Who brings the apes of Scandinavia Out of the drizzle into the real world! Here comes the panorama man The globe will turn beneath his thumb and he's leaving again Here comes the panorama man Who brings the victims of the flood (on the roof) The power of the chemical stain remover Did you know the habits of the orchids and rabbits Pictures of rosebud trees in bloom He says he's living in a nothing-block His wife is from a family of wealthy epileptic But poverty does not mean unhappiness Body rich, body poor, nowadays nothing's sure Here comes the panorama man The globe will turn beneath his thumb and he's leaving again Here comes the panorama man What's your most romantic moment? A school of herring in the fishing net A very black man is crossing a rope bridge The knock out of a welter weight Here comes the panorama man The globe will turn beneath his thumb and he's leaving again Here comes the panorama man @SONG: Mountain Jan (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) We are proud of Jan We are proud of Jan We named a mountain after you somewhere in Antarctica Unclimable, no different from the nameless others He spent a number of years at this project And now he knows how an electron behaves Hom hom The big man falls asleep Hom hom The mountain falls asleep @SONG: One Eye Open (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Boy, look at the letter A Cover your left eye, cover your right eye And will you please explain What are you seeing again When the letters grow small Boy, look at the room Cover your right eye, look at my hand And will you say to me How many fingers you see With one eye open Boy, your eyes are much bigger now Bigger than your stomach, open them once again And will you please say to me How many fingers you see With one eye open @SONG: An Eating House (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Car is driving through the hills all day Mom and Dad and the kids are on a holiday And they wanna eat Daddy, we're hungry We're on the road too long We are hu-hu-hungry We're on the road too long and we wanna eat And Daddys says I know a little place Where I used to eat in my salesman days When I was hu-hu-hungry On the road too long Hu-hungry I see the little house at the end of the road I am an eating house I am an eating house Once I was a famous restaurant between Utrecht and Salzburg I wore silver and linen and on the menu I had every dream Schnecken im Speckhemd, and things you haven't seen I'm hungry It's my turn to eat I am hu-hu-hungry I wanna grow like a man I wanna grow like a house I'll be a skyscraper This is what I wanna do I wanna be a castle Hu-hu-hungry Who's on my road today Hu-hu-hungry I'm gonna eat the car I'm gonna eat the little kids I am an eating house I am an eating house @SONG: The Swimmer (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Here comes the replay of an old dream I was dreaming when I was a small boy Turn around Turn around I'm in a drier in the kitchen In a tornado of shirts and towels Turn around Turn around The other day I had my tonsils out The smell of ether in dark rooms Turn around Turn around Tonight's different, the dream's not ending The drier opens, the water's streaming out It fills the house And fills the house I am the swimmer in the old house The water slowly fills the rooms Turn around Turn around Here comes the replay of an old dream I was dreaming when I was a small boy Turn around Turn around @SONG: Goodnight (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) [All over the song: Goodnight] Someone sings In a sweet voice Tonight Everything's all right Mother is coming Up the stairs She tells a story Of a manetee Someone sings In a sweet voice Tonight Everything's all right @SONG: Strangers Of The Night (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) We're strangers of the night Looking at each other in the window light You say: Let's go this way tonight The city turns The city burns And I am in the back of the car The city turns The city burns And I don't know where you are Slowly the light changes Window to window Your hand is cupping the light of a match Printed roses on your dress Dark and light in folding of clothings Body is Braille Body is Braille A wagon full of big-eyed cattle Boys with potato-faces Girls with red hands My head is rolling full of ocean She's a pet bird to be proud of (Julie) You lack leadership qualities A white steamer stuck in the afternoon He told us to double back, double back, double back Random birds in small backyards Catching the morning ferry A dark curtain of rain A dark curtain of rain Body is Braille Body is Braille A dark curtain of rain Your hand is cupping the light of a match A telephone rings An aeroplane flies We are catching the morning ferry In a dark curtain of rain @SONG: The Magic Of Lassie (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) The highway ended and he got out His one good ear to the ground (But where is) the magic of Lassie I've got a feeling that She's been away too long A voice out of heaven said: quarter past seven! The sand is running quickly through an hourglass (But where is) the magic of Lassie I've got a feeling that She's been away too long Think what it means to be an animal Crossing a highway, all the channels are weak tonight The magic of Lassie I've got a feeling that She's been away too long @SONG: Moon And Stars (Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) Don't go far I'm your star Don't be late I can wait The moon will shine on this house of mine