Was einem Kinde sagen [English translation]

My child, my little friend

What was the reason that you cried

For days a tin soldier's missing

You just told me

My child, what does it matter

It was just a piece of tin

And still your heart hinges on it

I can see that

My little one, believe me

He will come back to you

I know,m nothinf will happen to him

You will see

He lies, he who's telling you

Because you're missing a soldier

He's not alive anymore

Because he had fallen in the war

Noone hurts innocence just one bit nowadays

And the war is long since a bad, old tale

Mankind finally began to come to it's senses

And to start no more wars

Because noone can ever win it

My child, I know well

Your tin soldier is much too clever

Which is why your little hero went

Into the field with his bride

My child, this field

Is sick of the name "Field of Honour"

Of the trenches and the barbed wire

It sees delightedly your soldier

Picking flowers

• Artist:Salvatore Adamo