FRAULEIN - Artist: Bobby Helms - peak Billboard position # 36 in 1957 - competing version by Steve Lawrence charted at # 54 - Words and Music by Lawton Williams Far across deep blue waters lives an old German's daughter By the banks of the old river Rhine. Where I loved her and left her, I can't forget her. I miss my pretty fraulein. Fraulein, fraulein, walk down by the river. Pretend your hand's holdin' mine. By the same stars above you, I swear that I love you. You are my pretty fraulein. [instrumental interlude-"country fiddle"] When my memories wander away over yonder To the sweetheart that I left behind, In a moment of glory, a face comes before me: The face of my pretty fraulein. Fraulein, fraulein, walk down by the river. Pretend your hand's holdin' mine. By the same stars above you, I swear that I love you. You are my pretty fraulein. (umlauts left out for ease of typing. It should be "Fräulein."
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