Fehrbelliner cavalry march

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The Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch , also known as Kaiser Wilhelm March , is a cavalry march . It was composed in 1893 by the royal Prussian music director Richard Henrion as one of four fanfares marches; the other three marches were the crusader fanfare , Hie guet Brandenburg all along! and under the rafter shield . He is a regimental march of various Bundeswehr units.

Since the end of the German Empire in 1918, it has been sung as a popular hit with the line “We want our old Kaiser Wilhelm back”, and the further text “but the one with a beard, with a long beard” made it clear that the Subtext refers to Wilhelm I (1797–1888). In this context, the Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch is known as the Kaiser Wilhelm March .

Humorous text

Sung out of sympathy of the Germans to Kaiser Wilhelm.

Verse 1:

We want our old Kaiser Wilhelm back
We want our old Kaiser Wilhelm back
But the one with the beard, with the long beard
But the one with the beard, with the long beard

Repetition Verse 1:

We want our old Kaiser Wilhelm back
We want again have our old Kaiser Wilhelm
But the one with the beard, with his long beard
, but the one with the beard, with his long beard

verse 2:

so our parents raved about the good old days
you is so far and wide, the old empire
, but she was really better, those good old days
When Grandpa once had grandmother free Verse

3:

My grandpa swore stone and leg that a hundred years ago
The Rhine was still so utterly, the air was transparent
and Grandma said without joke that she as Young whore could
still drink from the Elbe without getting sick. Verse

4:
Yes, with hunting songs and with horns
    (pause)
Go through the woods around Fehrbellin
    (pause)
Yes, with hunting songs and with horns g
    (pause)
Grandma rode with grandpa
But they stopped and kissed
Otherwise we wouldn't be there today

Repeat verse 1:

We want our old Kaiser Wilhelm back
We want our old Kaiser Wilhelm back
But the one with the beard, with the long one Beard
But the one with the beard, with the long beard

Web links

• Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch - Music Corps of the 1st Mountain Division on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Janßen: Towards the doom. An old man, a sick man, a narcissus: Prussia in the three emperor year 1888. In: Die Zeit , June 17, 1988