Mariandl [English translation]

Mariandl-andl-andl,

from the Wachau Valley.

Your beautiful name sounds

already like a love word.

Mariandl-andl-andl,

you have my heart on a string, on a string.

You hold it tight and never

let it go again.

And every year, I think

the Danube is not responsible

and nor the wine.

Into the Wachau Valley,

draws me my Mariandl-andl.

For she alone will

become my Mariandl.

When a young man speaks of love,

it soon becomes a rhyme.

And if it has a lyrical sound,

it often becomes a song.

What drove him to writing it down

was: I love you!

Mariandl-andl-andl,

you have my heart on a string, on a string.

You hold it tight and never

let it go again.

And every year, I think

the Danube is not responsible

and nor the wine.

In the Wachau Valley,

draws me my Mariandl-andl.

For she alone will

become my Mariandl.