My heart's on the Rhine, near my youth's early home,
My heart's on the Rhine wheresoever I roam;
No river, no country, in all the wide world,
Can match with the Rhine and the land of my birth.
Amid the gay dance or when sparkles the wine,
Still wherever I am, my heart's on the Rhine.
I think with delight on thy broad golden stream,
Thy vineyards that smile 'neath the sun's glowing beam;
Thy castles that frown from the rock's dizzy height,
Thy warriors so brave and thy maidens so bright.
My dear native land, may all blessings be thine,
Wheresoever I roam, my heart's on the Rhine.
My heart's on the Rhine, near my youth's early home,
My heart's on the Rhine wheresoever I roam.