Heideroosjes - Applause Cattle lyrics

The elderly association from Klazienaratjetoe(*1)

They got a note, they were invited to come on TV

With a full bus to the ‘Vakantieman'(*2)

They made it a nice and cosy day

Everyone with new cloths and everyone happy

After they drove for 3 hours, they arrived

They needed to sit quickly, close to each other

The director called: “All shut up

Don't squint in the camera and applause is obliged

When I wave with my papers the hands hit eachother…

The elderly association got flags and they needed to wave them

But Aunt Mien had asthma and begun coughing

And during the commercials Aunt Mien was taken out of the audience

“Fuck off, bitch, you failed in your behavior”

The elderly association needed to song too, some kind of national anthem

But Uncle Jan without dentures, he couldn't do that

The director didn't knew no pardon, and Uncle Jan was shown the door

This is TV man, no stupid day out

Applause cattle, do you want to clap?

Hands hit each other, 1, 2 hupsakee(*3)

Applause cattle, grieve on TV

Hands hit each other, 1, 2 hupsakee

I can cry about it, I get sick of it

Take those scandal programs with that curding audience

Jan fucked his mother, and Kees the dog

I don't give a fuck, so shut up

Even worse is Hansje with his ‘Rad van Fortuin'(*4)

And I'm not even talking about those pizza's of ‘van Duin'(*5)

Laugh and clap, 1, 2, on commando

Your dog is better in it, ‘apport' the boss Fernando!(*6)

The elderly association from Klazinaratjetoe

Was that day more dead than tired

Uncle Jan and Aunt Mien had enough

They will never go to the ‘vakantieman' again…

(*1 Klazinaratjetoe is just a fictional town)

(*2 ‘De Vakantieman' is an old Dutch program. Translated: “The Holiday guy”)

(*3 Hupsakee isn't really a Dutch word. It's pretty hard to explain. You can say it to children when you help them up a bike or a horse. A bastardized word which means something like ‘there you go' )

(*4 ‘Rad van Fortuin' is an old Dutch game show. Translated: “The Wheel of Fortune”)

(*5 ‘André van Duin' is a famous Dutch comedian. One of his characters is the pizza man)

(*6 ‘Apport' is what you say to your dog when you throw a stick)