"The [City] of New Orleans is a nice song."
Heard it once sung in German - "Der Zug Genannt 'Der City of New Orleans'" - by a guy named Jack White.
It loses everything in the translation.
Egads.
It loses everything in the translation.
It works both ways; Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife" is a pale copy of the original German "Mackie Messer".