An der Nordseeküste [English translation]

Back then, endlessly long ago

We Frisians began squatting at the waterfront

The years went by as the winds of time blow

But we Frisians of today still look drunk1

[Chorus:]

On the coast of the North Sea, at the Low-German beach,

The fish are in the water and seldom on the land

High tide is followed by low tide, and low tide is followed by high tide

The dikes hold up, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't

The dunes, they wander back and forth on the beach

From Greenland to Flanders, more or less

[Chorus]

The seals sing their lament

Because they can't wiggle their tails, too bad

The sheep bleat like mad on the dike

And garnish it richly with black-green pellets

[Chorus, repeated]

1. in German it is a pun with a word they used line 2