Duo haqolot - Westerbork Serenade (by Johnny & Jones) feat. Maik Nürnberger

Live @ D Room studios, featuring Maik Nürnberger, 2023:
Duo haqolot (Anna Langner & Cornelius Rauch) performing 'Westerbork Serenade' by the dutch Jazz Duo Johnny & Jones from 1944. Translation from Dutch by Anna Langner.


literal translation:
I believe, I am not really well.
Not at all present with my thoughts.
Suddenly, a completely different person,
My heart beats like the “vliegtuigsloperij”*
Singing my Westerbork Serenade,
By the railway tracks, the silver moon is beaming over the meadow.
Singing my Westerbork Serenade,
strolling with a pretty lady along the heath,
the Westerbork love life.
After that, I went to the doctor.
He said, it’s not much for me to do.
But I will feel better,
after getting my very first kiss.

Singing my Westerbork Serenade,
...
*airplane disassembly factory as a part of a camp close to s’Hertogenbosch, NL, where prisoners had to work on old airplanes, to regain materials to use for weapons