Alsatian flag song
The Alsatian flag song was written by Emil Woerth (1870-1926) on the occasion of the proclamation of the constitution of the country of Alsace-Lorraine on May 31, 1911.
text
Greetings to our country's symbol,
Alsace flag, fluttering happily in the wind!
Your colors, lovely without equal,
always shine wherever we are gathered.
- refrain
- White and red:
- We see the flag floating!
- Until death
- We are loyal to her!
- White and red:
- We see the flag floating
- Until death
- Loyal to her!
Real and right, as our fathers were,
we want to be in deed and in words;
Our way, we want to keep it
flawless and pure in the future.
- refrain
And whether happiness or sorrow the time gears will
ever bring our Alsace region:
Always stand in unbroken love,
We joyfully to him with heart and hand.
- refrain
Let us therefore swear on our flag,
brothers to him from the Wasgau to the Rhine:
we should never be beguiled by strange trinkets!
We always want to be loyal to Alsace!
- refrain
source
The original version of the song is reprinted in the song book High and Alone. Poems and songs (self-published by the poet, Mulhouse 1912).
Web links
- Alsatian flag song , MP3 , in Alsatian German
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bibl. Nchw. from Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Tape. 8, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, p. 269 .