Hilla Lilla [English translation]

Hilla Lilla sits in her bedchamber

No one knows my sorrow but God

She shed many tears down her cheek

He who could share my pain is gone

An urgent message arrived to the Queen

Proud Hilla Lilla sews frenzied her seams

No one knows my sorrow but God

The Queen wears her cloak of blue

To pay proud Hilla Lilla a visit to

He who could share my pain is gone

Gracious Queen please sit down here

That I may tell to you my sorrows my dear

No one knows my sorrow but God

My father he kept me oh so pure

No one knows my sorrow but God

Served by a knight both hand and foot

He who could share my pain is gone

And it was the Duke of Hillebrand

No one knows my sorrow but God

With him I would flee to the foreign lands

He who could share my pain is gone

And when we reached a shady grove

No one knows my sorrow but God

There the Duke he lay himself down

He who could share my pain is gone

He lay for a time inside of me

No one knows my sorrow but God

And then he slept so calm and sweet

He who could share my pain is gone

Hillebrand Hillebrand sleep not now

I hear my father and my seven brothers

Hardly had I said these words

When seven wounds struck my Hillebrand down

One brother seized my golden locks

And bound me onto his saddle horn

And when we came to the first gate

My mother forlorn stood awaiting me

My brother he wished to strangle me

But my mother she chose to sell me away

He who could share my pain is gone

She sold me for a brand new bell

No one knows my sorrow but God

It hangs in the village of Marie Church

He who could share my pain is gone

When my mother heard the chime of that bell

No one knows my sorrow but God

Her heart it shattered into pieces small

He who could share my pain is gone

Proud Hilla Lilla finished her tale

No one knows my sorrow but God

At the Queen's feet she fell dead

He who could share my pain is gone