Nikolaus und Weihnachtsmann [English translation]

Spoke Nicholas to Santa Claus:

Something must happen!

That we are so often confused,

that can't go on like this.

Everywhere to the Christmas time

they put on our old clothes,

and the red coat that certainly

belongs to Santa Claus

Because I carry my miter on my head

and in my hand the crosier,

do I ask myself, how we two

actually can be confused."

Spoke Santa Claus to Nicholas:

Dear Friend I'm sorry.

You're wearing so dignified

your old bishop's dress.

That we are not the youngest,

there can be no doubt about that

but more than a thousand years old

is Santa Claus alone.

You were in dire need of the children,

and they love you, well, you know,

and today you give each child

something in the shoe. "

There sang from the sky, bright and clear,

a Christmas angel, wonderful:

"You two are listening to me,

and then give peace!

What the kids at Christmas time

see in their dreams,

become big people, like you,

probably never quite understand.

Every child makes his own picture,

and it firmly believes in it.

There is certainly Nicholas in it

and also Santa Claus.

But it only lets him into his heart,

which makes it bigger and small,

who is ready to be a child,

that's what matters,

Nicholas and Santa Claus. "