1.
What the fashion say - to the girls today
Hard to find the trendy way
Is it really cute to be partly nude?
Dressed so tight as painted on
But however time to time my thoughts so sudden goes
To the fairy tale about the Emperor's new clothes
Where in crowded street just one small boy would dare to mention
Look this silly man is totally undressed
Could we get more harmony between the populations?
If we were a bit more dressed here in the west
2.
Our culture is good, save it well we should
It is threatened from abroad
Art and culture we in museums see
Movies, theatre and TV
But however time to time my thoughts so sudden goes
To the fairy tale about the Emperor's new clothes
Where in crowded street just one small boy would dare to mention
Look this silly man is totally undressed
Could we get more peace between the different populations?
If a bit less violent movies people watched
3.
All this polemic, about politics
and scandalous dramatic
Laws and rules adjust, they so frequent must
more still more wish all of us
But however time to time my thoughts so sudden goes
To the fairy tale about the Emperor's new clothes
Where in crowded street just one small boy would dare to mention
Look this silly man is totally undressed
Could we get more peace between the different populations?
If not always all of us still more must get
4.
Laws for which or what,
and Headscarf debate,
can we no more wear a hat?
What shall we believe?
And where shall we live?
Shall we walk in boots or shoes?
But however time to time my thoughts so sudden goes
To the fairy tale about the Emperor's new clothes
Where so many people were afraid to show opinion
to the cheatings which their emperor could not see
could the different people get a better integration?
if all self-decide how they should dressed be

Text & Melody: Poul Pedersen © 1997 /. 2007