1 The hooked cross in a white field / On a fiery red background / Offers freely and openly to the whole world / The joyful message / That everyone who treasures this emblem / Is truly German in soul, mind and origin / And not only a camp-follower.
2 Restless we must wander in Flanders / So far away from home / The grey(-uniformed) soldiers / While the shells scream past us / Have learnt not to laugh.
3 Fox, you’ve stolen the goose, give it back, give it back / Or else the hunter with his rifle will come and fetch it