Bishop sings 99 Red Balloons

"No problem for the successful entertainer!"

Cathcon translation of
Bischof singt "99 Luftballons"

On Thursday evening , Bishop Franz-Josef Bode visited the meeting of the Catholic Youth Movement in the Countryside. The Bishop not only led the worship. He performed in the subsequent social event giving a karaoke demonstration, and singing Nena’s "99 Red Balloons".

Nena - 99 Red Balloons Lyrics
You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons
With the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message
"Something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here
From somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
Where 99 red balloons go by

99 Decision Street
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by

[Instrumental Interlude]

99 Knights of the airway
Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a Silverhero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
As 99 red balloons go by

As 99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go

What's it going to be at the German Catholic Congress 2008 Bishop? Suggestions anyone? New lyrics always welcome!

"Until then!"

The movement he was singing to/ with/ at has a Gender Mainstreaming Group and occupied much of its time a few years ago criticising the Pope when he stopped the official Catholic centres handing out medical notes that could be used to obtain abortions- in the teeth of opposition also from many Catholic Bishops.

Oppressed Catholic Women Young Farmers!

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