LILI MARLEEN Song LYRICS English Text VIDEO Marlene Dietrich
Lili Marleen
Song Lyrics
Text translated into English
(The Song of a Young Soldier on Watch)
Traditional folk song
origin and lyrics of the song:
“Lili Marleen”
War love song
German Song
Lili Marleen (or also “Lilly Marlene”, “Lili Marlen”, “Lilli Marlene”, “Lily Marlene”, “Lili Marlène”) is a famous German war love song, translated into countless languages and became famous throughout the world during the Second World War. The original Lyrics of the song Lili Marlene comes from a poem, entitled “Das Lied eines jungen Soldaten auf der Wacht” (The Song of a Young Soldier on Watch) that a German writer and poet from Hamburg, Hans Leip, soldier during the First World War world, he wrote before leaving for the Russian front in 1915. The poem “The Song of a Young Soldier on Watch” was part of a book of poems entitled Die Harfenorgel. Despite the decidedly antiwar character of the poem, the part about Lili Marleen attracted the attention of the musician Norbert Schultze, author of marches and military and propaganda songs, who set it to music in 1938. From 1941 the “Lili Marleen” song was broadcast by the military broadcaster Radio Belgrade, under the Nazi occupation of the radio and the Balkan country, to entertain the German army.
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Song Lyrics
Lili Marleen
Traditional German folk song
War love Song
Text translated into English
Right next to the barracks
by the main gate
there stood a lantern
and stands there up to date
We’re going to meet there again
Next to the lantern we will remain
Like then, Lili Marlene
Like then, Lili Marlene
Our casted shadows
appearing as one
and the love we had,
clear to everyone
and to all people that was quite plain
when by the lantern we were stayin’
Like then, Lili Marlene
Like then, Lili Marlene
Already says the sentry,
lights-out’s being called
that can cost you three days,
comrad let’s not get stalled
We said goodnight right there and then
How I would love be with you again
Like then, Lili Marlene
Like then, Lili Marlene
It knows your nice walking,
as you come along
every night it’s burning,
but it forgot me long
And if it comes and I’ll be slain
Who by the lantern will be coming then
With you, Lili Marlene
With you, Lili Marlene
Off the lands of silence,
off the earthly ground
in a dream it lifts me,
your kiss leaves me astound
When the mist of night swirls into reign
There by the lantern I will be again
Like then, Lili Marlene
Like then, Lili Marlene
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Lili Marleen
by Hans Leip (1915)
War German song
Traditional German folk song
Song Lyrics translated into English
Lili Marleen Original German song lyrics > here
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All War Song Lyrics > here
Video clip
“Lili Marleen” Song
Singing by Marlene Dietrich
