作曲 : Mark Knopfler
作词 : KNOPFLER, MARK
  Why aye man
 Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
 Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
 
 We're the nomad tribes, travelling boys
 In the dust and dirt and the racket and the noise
 Drills and hammers, diggers and picks
 Mixing concrete, laying bricks
 There's English, Irish, Scots, the lot
 United Nation's what we've got
 Brickies, chippies, every trade
 German building, british-made
 
 Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
 Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
 
 Nae more work on Maggie's farm
 Hadaway down the autobahn
 Mine's a portacabin bed
 Or a bunk in a nissen hut instead
 
 There's plenty deutschmarks here to earn
 And German tarts are wundersch
 German beer is chemical-free
 Germany's alreet with me
 Sometimes I miss my river Tyne
 But you're my pretty fraulein
 Tonight we'll drink the old town dry
 Keep wor spirit levels high
 
 Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
 Why aye man, why aye, why aye man