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📝 Barış Manço – Nick The Chopper

Nick The Chopper is one of the most famous English-language songs by Turkish rock pioneer Barış Manço. The song tells the story of a greedy woodcutter who destroys the forest until nature itself decides to fight back – a timeless parable about the environment and greed.

🎵 Nick The Chopper - Barış Manço
🎙️ Artist: Barış Manço
💿 Album: Nick the Chopper / Baris Mancho
📅 Recorded: 1976
🚀 Release: 1976
🏆 Achievements: A milestone of Anatolian Rock that brought Barış Manço international recognition.
🎬 Barış Manço - Nick The Chopper (Official Video)

Lyrics in English

Down in the forest near a village lived the man called Nick the chopper
Chopping woods his game and making money
Carrying logs for trees he blinds the chops on never to be married
He never washes, he never went to school

Nick the chopper chopping woods his game and getting money
Doesn't care for life or even for a friend

He's a dirty old man, Nick the chopper
He's a dirty old man, Nick the chopper
We're going to kill you, Nick the chopper
Strangle you with branches, Nick the chopper

Now a very old man, he had decided to make his fortune
Nick the chopper chopping woods his game, he couldn't stop it
He wants to cut down all the forest, the trees they hated him
They made a promise, give him a lesson

Nick the chopper chopping woods his game, he couldn't stop it
Well as the story goes he's beat and it is game

He's a dirty old man, Nick the chopper
He's a dirty old man, Nick the chopper
We're going to kill you, Nick the chopper
Strangle you with branches, Nick the chopper

 

🎬 Video: Barış Manço - Nick The Chopper