Es geht alles vorüber, es geht alles vorbei [English translation]

On his post in a lonely night

There's a soldier watching out

Dreaming of Hanne and happiness

That had remained at home

The clouds in the sky are drifting

All towards home, we know

And his heart is thinking silently:

That's where I'll go one day, too.

There's an end to it all

There's an end to it okay

On every December

Follows May

There's an end to it all

There's an end to it okay

But two people in love

stay true

And when she called out for him desperately

He immediately started writing a letter

Dear Hanne, stand by me

And don't lose faith

Even in fire and filth

Because all of that ends

And from the private to the lieutennant

There's known a parole:

There's an end to it all

There's an end to it okay

On every December

Follows May

There's an end to it all

There's an end to it okay

But two people in love

stay true

But finally comes the time

The trooper has been looking forward to

Because his signed holiday permission is already at the sarge

Then he rests calmly in the feather bed of the house of Hanne

That's why saying good-bye is twice as hard

But she says: No I don't cry anymore

[Now you don't cry anymore?]