Roter Wedding [English translation]

[Chorus:]

Red Wedding1 greets you, comrades,

Hold the fists ready!

Keep the red ranks closed,

Then the day is not far away anymore!

Let's fight as socialists

finally in one front!

Working brothers, communists,

Red front! Red front!

Left, left, left, left!

The drums are being beaten.

Left, left, left, left!

The working class is marching.

We don't ask you about association and party2

As long as you're honestly participating in the fight

Against injustice and reaction3.

We are united by the extreme poverty, by the hunger,

Our casualties in combat with the enemy tie us together,

Our songs of the revolution!

[Chorus]

Left, left, left, left!

The fight will be continued.

Left, left, left, left!

Whoever capitulates is a rascal!

We carry the truth from house to house,

And chase the lie out through the chimney,

Like Karl Marx and Lenin taught us.

And even if the enemy killed our best,

The Wedding will return; Berlin stays red,

So that Germany belongs to the German people4.

[Chorus]

1. Wedding is a part of the city Berlin;

absolutely no relation to the English word for "marriage ceremony"2. i. e. we don't ask which association and party you belong to3. reaction in the meaning of counter-revolution and anti-communism4. This line was added, probably by Ernst Busch, later during the American occupation of west Germany.

• Artist:Ernst Busch