far across the deep blue water lives an old german s daughter on the banks of the old river rhine where i loved her and left her now i can t forget her for she was my pretty fraulein well fraulein fraulein walk down by the river tonight when those stars start to shine by those same stars above you well i swear that i love you for you are my pretty fraulein oh when my memory wanders away over yonder to the one that i left behind in a moment of glory her face comes before me the face of my pretty fraulein well fraulein fraulein walk down by the river tonight when the stars start to shine shine by those same stars above you well i swear that i love you oh you are my pretty fraulein