Wacker Mädchen English translation
von Elster Silberflug

Every day a brave maid
went 'round the pasture
|: Everyday a lofty hunter
follows after her :|

He spreads out his mantle
well on the green grass
|: And asked the fair maiden,
that she may sit with him :|


"I can not sit down,
I have no weeds yet
|: I have a mean mother,
she scolds me every day" :|

"Do you have mean mother,
she scolds you every day?
|: Then take all of your clothes and
follow after me now" :|

"Oh, hunter, dearest hunter,
the clothes are not plenty
|: The father has squandered them,
in games of cards and dice :|


Has the father squandered them,
in games of cards and dice,
|: then may God be pitied,
that I am the daughter" :|