As I recently sneaked off to my lass,
I looked amiably into her window;
There with pain I saw her embracing another lad,
So that, right into my soul, it made me flinched bloodily;
And now I wander about silently with my heartache,
I missed the way out of the village;
Is there no street, is there no pathway
That would lead me out of this world?

Can it be possible then, with heart and lips she was mine,
My happiness, my all was only in her;
Remember that I have said it to you, it has seized me mightily,
I think it shall soon be all over with me.
I would like to ask you, give my little hut
And what is in it faithfully to her;
She will not scold me for that, I cannot make it up to her,
For this short love was my whole life.

Despair drives me away from the quiet place
Where love and faithfulness vanished for me,
Where I loved so fervently, I am now so deeply saddened,
No one should trust me, believe me truly,
I can no longer stay here, I am driven onward,
I must go utterly out of this life;
Take me up the Thee, I gladly depart from here,
Upon earth there can be no further happiness for me.