Ich bin ein freier Bauernknecht [English translation]

I am a free farmhand

Even though my social class is not doing well recently

But still I think I'm doing as well

As one who's acting up at the King's court

Tralltirala

I am my own's

Must not to anyone

bow or bend

Though I carry no hat of expensive beaver-leather

This rough felt hat will shurely do

Adored with some green shrubs

It'll look just like expensive feathers

Tralltiralla

I won't pay attention

Though the court lackeys will belittle it and laugh

I carry no long and elaborate curls (1)

nor put powder into it, I'll save my money

The Dust of the countryside the wind shall blow

Come summer all over my hair

Tralltiralla

So I walk quite truncated (2)

Even tho my Forelock is kept in nice shape

I neither have the seat of a Knight

Am not wellspoken, nor of ruse and wit

But I own a farm estate

Of merry countenance and courage

Tralltiralla

And diligently seek

All the things that will serve a farmer well

I have a body thats rarely sick

For I am working the plow right often

But these (3) are carousing and gorge on meat

Which causes all their many ailments

Tralltiralla

And besides I'm more crispy

Than those who live constantly at Court

What does the man at Court think of himself

Pretending he's something better than me

When Adam plowed and Eve spun flax

Who was of royal standing then ?

Traltiralla

I live every morning

Secure and free of all worries

• Artist:Zupfgeigenhansel