Today here tomorrow there
Today here, tomorrow there is a folk song by Hannes Wader . He first appeared on his album 7 songs in 1972 . The melody comes from the song Indian Summer by the American musician Gary Bolstad , who studied veterinary medicine in Berlin in the 1960s and performed in folk clubs. The German text comes from Hannes Wader.
In 1997 Bolstad, now back in the USA, translated Wader's text into English again. The result, Day to Day , Wader sang in 1998 on the live album Appearance: Hannes Wader . In 2001 he sang the original version of Indian Summer for the album Wünsche for the first time .
Here today, there tomorrow , with its catchy melody and - compared to many other Wader songs - the less complex text became a kind of modern folk song . The title of the song has also become a " winged word " in everyday German, see list of winged words . The song describes the attitude towards life of a person who is always on the move, never asks about “yesterday and tomorrow”, but occasionally has “heavy dreams” because of it. The “I” expresses its external and internal mobility in the face of the general principle of constant change in the world, to which it indulges in its way of life.
The title and text of the song tie in with the tradition and lifestyle of the Wandervogel movement of the early 20th century. Michael Köhler called the song in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung a "song about the diverse impressions that one like him [Wader] encounters in his unsteady touring life".
Wader has always started his concerts with this piece since 1972. Only in the meantime, when that became too monotonous for him, he played Good to be here again as the first piece, but after two years switched back to here today, there tomorrow . According to his own statement, this was done at the request of his audience and he does not plan to change this again.
Cover versions
In 2007 the band Die Schröders covered the song in a punk rock version. In 2012 the song was covered by the Düsseldorf band Die Toten Hosen on the album Die Geister we rufen and by Slime on the album Today here, tomorrow there - Salut to Hannes Wader . A version by Philipp Poisel appeared as a bonus track on his album Bis nach Toulouse .
supporting documents
- ↑ Michael Köhler: Concert: Today here tomorrow there , FAZ from March 27, 2006.
- ↑ Interview by Jan Kühnemund: Money war me bäh-bäh ( Memento from May 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), © ZEIT online March 2007, last accessed on June 25, 2018.
- ↑ http://groenland.com/2010/09/philipp-poisel-bis-nach-toulouse/