When our summer is over, light snow is silently falling
I would continue being your sweetie and being the good one for you
In a small, quiet bachelor flat, the clock urges us to say goodbye
The noises of the street come in from the outside, loud hurrahs can be heard
Can you hear how they blow the horn? Can you hear the music?
They're blowing "Go ahead!", "Let's go!", they're blowing an alarm already
Put your head on my shoulder dear, someone else can have you by evening
By evening the regiment will set out, by evening I'll be gone too
By sunset our regiment will be marching
Kiss me one more time sweetheart, who knows where we'll go?
By a distant, flickering fire, the regiment goes to rest
The lieutenant can't sleep, he asks for a pen and paper
Someone is waiting for him at home, he thinks he hears someone crying
He props his head on his hand and then he writes in silence
On the next day, the poor lieutenant is lying on a hospital bed
A bullet hit his lungs, there's no hope that he could survive
Doctor, I would like to write so bad, I don't even know why
I would like to see a girl, who might not even be mine
Doctor, for heaven's sake, give me my officer's uniform
I won't lie in bed any longer, I'll protect my Hungarian homeland
It's not possible lieutenant, says the doctor, you're still sick
Under the cover of the night, the lieutenant escaped from the hospital
The battle is over, the sun goes down bloody
Beside the stretcher of the lieutenant, a priest is praying
He's reassuring him softly, quietly but the lieutenant can't hear him anymore
His heart makes a feverish throb and his soul ascends to heaven
A mail has arrived by post, which was about the lieutenant
The captain has read it and then softly said
Write to the girl that she shouldn't wait for her lieutenant
His eternal bed is being dug here, his grave has been dug here
The night is coming silently, the drums are starting to roll
Nobody knows that at home someone is sobbing quietly
In a small, quiet bachelor flat, a gorgeous girl has died
She stuck a sharp needle in her heart, she went after the lieutenant