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 In Germany before the war

 There was a man who owned a store

 In nineteen hundred thirty-four in Dusseldorf

 And every night at five-o-nine

 He'd cross the park down to the rhine

 And he'd sit there by the shore

Chorus

 I'm looking at the river but I'm thinking of the sea

Thinking of the sea, Thinking of the sea

 I'm looking at the river but I'm thinking of the sea

A little girl has lost her way

With hair of gold and eyes of gray

Reflected in his glasses As he watches her

A little girl has lost her way

With hair of gold and eyes of gray

Chorus

We lie beneath the autumn sky

My little golden girl and I

And she lies very still