At least I've found a verbatim English translation here.
Wolfgang

THE TWO GRENADIERS

To France were returning two grenadiers
Who had been in Russia in prison.
And when to the German lodging they came,
They sadly bowed their beads.

There they were told the sorrowful tale:
That France had been lost and defeated,
Conquered and beaten the valiant army,
And the Emperor, the Emperor captured.

Then wept the grenadiers together.
Over the mournful tidings.
One said: "How my heart aches,
How my old wound is burning!"

The other said: "The song is o'er,
I too would fain die with you,
But I have a wife and child at home,
Who without me will perish."

"What care I for wife, what care I for child,
I have a far better desire ;
Let them go begging if hungry they are,
My Emperor, my Emperor captured!

Grant me, brother, but one request:
If I should now die,
Take my body along to France,
Entomb me in France's soil.

The medal on the red ribbon
You shall lay upon my heart ;
Give me the musket in my hands,
And buckle on my sabre.

Thus I will lie and listen still,
Like a sentinel in the grave,
Till some day I shall hear the cannon's roar
And the trotting of neighing steeds,

It is then that my Emperor will ride over my grave,
Many swords will be clanking and sparkling,
Then I shall rise, fully armed, out of my grave,
My Emperor, my Emperor defending!"