God knows I'm not a bad person
I've never wished people dead
But if people never died
I would die of hunger on my mound
I am a poor gravedigger
The living believe that I have no remorse
Earning my bread on the backs of the dead
But it bothers me and besides
I bury them reluctantly
I am a poor gravedigger
The more I let go of my emotions
The more my friends make fun of me
And they tell me: "Old man, at moments
You have a funeral expression on your face"
I am a poor gravedigger
However much I tell myself that nothing is eternal,
I can't find it completely natural
And I never succeed
In taking death as it comes
I am a poor gravedigger
Neither seen nor known, decent dead farewell
If from the bottom of the earth you see the good Lord
Tell him how much trouble it cost me
The last shovelful
I am a poor gravedigger