Das kleine Haus deutsche Übersetzung
von Andreas Gabalier

There stands a cottage in the woods in the meadow,
it's been there for a few hundred years,
What could that cottage not know
and tell how things used to be.

There stands a cottage in the woods in the meadow,
the most beautiful flowers bloom around it.
It stands empty and almost falls apart,
now abandoned, and no one knows why.

There stands a cottage in the woods in the meadow,
the mill's stream rushes by in front of the door.
Small children play in front of the house
with some luck it could be like this forever.


There are friends and guests from afar,
who travelled day and night to be here.
In front of the door is a little lantern,
and another one in the warm porch.

In the cottage in the woods in the meadow,
there was always a snack for the hungry.
In the corner devoted to the Lord, there was a candle,
with singing, it was filled with joy.

In the cottage in the forest was a workshop,
Where a man sits in front of his linden wood.
with a chisel in his hand and the most skillful hands,
that are known, carves on a clothes hook.

Now they have torn down the little house in the forest,
that has been there for a few hundred years.
just the mowing is still going on in the meadow.
And soon no one will remember how beautiful it once was.