What is the German fatherland?
Is it Prussia? Is it Austria?
Is it where the flowers of the Rhine bloom?
Oh nein, nein, nein!
Our fatherland must be bigger!
What is the German fatherland?
Is it Poland? Is it France,
Is it the rocks of the British land?
Oh nein, nein, nein!
Our fatherland must be bigger!
What is the German fatherland?
Is it Iberia? Is it Siberia?
Is it where the banks of the Yangtze flow?
Is it the tropics of Africa?
Oh nein, nein, nein!
The fatherland must be bigger!
What is the German fatherland?
Is it Antarctica? Is it Australia?
Shall it be the entirety of the world?
Oh yes, yes, YES!
Germany shall be bigger!