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This song is about a little child who wants to be all alone, so it plays dead. The people of the village take it for dead and quickly bury it under the sand. The cold air outside wakes the buried-alive child, who plays the music box it was buried with and sings from underground. It is eventually heard and the child is dug back out of the ground.

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A small person just pretends to die
It wanted to be completely alone
The small heart stood still for hours
So they declared it dead
It is buried in wet sand
With a music box in its hand

The first snow that covered the grave
Woke the child very gently
In a cold winter night
The small heart is awakened

As the frost flew into the child
It wound up the music box
A melody in the wind
And the child sings from the ground

Up down, rider
And no angel climbs down
My heart does not beat any longer
Only the rain cries at the grave
Up down, rider
A melody in the wind
My heart does not beat any longer
And the child sings from the ground

The cold moon, in full magnificence
Hears the cries in the night
And no angel climbs down
Only the rain cries at the grave

Between hard oak boards
It will play with the music box
A melody in the wind
And the child sings from the ground

Up down, rider
And no angel climbs down
My heart does not beat anymore
Only the rain cries on the grave
Up and down, rider
A melody in the wind
My heart does not beat anymore
And the child sings from the ground

Up down, rider
My heart does not beat any longer

On Totensonntag they heard this
Melody from God's field
Then they unearthed it
They saved the small heart in the child

Up down, rider
A melody in the wind
My heart does not beat any longer
And the child sings on the ground
Up down, rider
And no angel climbs down
My heart does not beat any longer
Only the rain cries at the grave