Once I had a big house
It was surrounded by a beautiful garden
Where you could hear the peacock scream every night
Like an omen of my destiny, when I used to find there
A golden egg, a big golden egg in the morning
I don't know myself, where he came from to my place
Never before did I think about that
What should it be good for, when I had
A pretty pile of golden eggs
And many friends were surrounding me
I was not alone, oh no, I was not alone
One night that took the gilt off the gingerbread:
The bird wasn't hatching out golden eggs anymore
My destiny handed me out some bad cards
So I have lost the game with her
But life was going on
Some good many years
Passed after this night
For which he shall smart for one day
Now I'm sitting alone in the garden
Alone among broken flowers
No one is visiting me any longer
Sometimes only he will come
Sometimes only he will come, the beautiful
Sometimes only he will come, the beautiful, proud
Like a peacock, a peacock used to be