Aber bitte mit Sahne [English translation]

They're meeting every day at a quarter past three

At the regulars' table in the pastry shop at the corner

Sounding the call for their attack on the cake buffet

On Black Forest cake and cream meringue

On fruit ice, pineapple, cherry and banana

With cream on top, please! (With cream on top, please!)

They're chattering and smacking, then go for some more

Butter-cream cake and bee sting cake

They're huffing and puffing, almost filled to the hilt

Just one more whippet cookie, order must prevail

For Mathilda, Ottilia, Marie and Liliane

With cream on top, please! (With cream on top, please!)

Everybody must've seen the end coming

Death's been reaping them one by one

The bereaved, in pain, were at a loss for words

With Sacher cake, Linzer and almond paste torte

Liliane held on to the flag as the lone survivor, true to the end

With cream on top, please! (With cream on top, please!)

But even Liliane eventually couldn't hold out any longer

Fell off the chair in the pastry shop

Her coffin, instead of wreaths, was covered in sugared cakes

And the minister buried her with moving words

"May the Lord pave the way to heaven for her"

With cream on top, please! (With cream on top, please!)

Another cup of coffee? (With cream on top, please!)

Another small meringue? (With cream on top, please!)

[spoken:] Or a cookie maybe?

(With cream on top, please!)

• Artist:Udo Jürgens