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single, 1973
Written by Jürgen Huth, Heinz Huth, Michael Holm
Nighttrain is a German rock duo. This song, listed on the original single as simply "Bimmelbahn," is about a man who watches his lady get on a tram and leave him. Translated from the German: "The tourist train, it hissed, my sweetheart wanted to ride along / And I called after her, don’t leave me all alone." The narrator bemoans the loss of the tram as well as his love, adding a plaintive "bye bye bye" in English. The song was covered and transformed by Boney M. in 1979; they left in the catchy "oooh oooh hoo" chorus, but changed the setting to the Caribbean.
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