With spade, axe and sword
By wagons, on foot and horse
True to the Schlieffen Plan
We fight through to Russia
Report to the High Command
The reserves at Niedenburg
Don't change the victory question
Shoots himself in the head
The shame that still hurts
The shame that still hurts, erased
The first battle, the first glory
Victory that shapes the battlefield
But that's not what counts
With tens of thousands dead
Countless prisoners of war
From the Alps to the Baltic Sea
Historic cheers everywhere
The field post sends the message
But in the West there's news
The Flanders battle begins
Greets us with iron showers
But in the West there's news
From Flanders into the Argonne
From Flanders into the Argonne
From Flanders into the Argonne