Schinderhannes [English translation]

Much in the world I left

In the deep forest took me prisoner

You take me into the city where should I be hung

You take me into the city where should I be trapped

Johannes Bückler this is my name und 23 are my years

3 days and 3 nights before my end I still received the

Sacrament

3 days and 3 nights before my end I still received the

Sacrament

Hannes the Schinder is called me

But I was not a hero

Yes, some fell from my hand

Schinderhannes I was called

Oh, what will my mother say to me If she hears all the complaints that in my younger years so much evil did

That in my younger years so much evil did

And I am to enter the court

For our father I should still pray

For our father we do not pray

I see the dead face

For our father we do not pray

I see the dead in the face

Hannes the Schinder is called me

But I was not a hero

Yes, some fell from my hand

Schinderhannes I was called

Ade dear father, goodbye dear mother

Ade dear sister, good-bye dear brother

Wash your hands in my blood

So you know how much it hurts

Wash your hands in my blood

So you know how much it hurts

Hannes the Schinder is called me

Yes, that's what they call me

But a hero, (a true hero), that was not me

Yes some fell, (it fell too much), from my hand (from my hand)

Schinderhannes I was called