The Deutschland-Lied is brilliant. "Die Wacht am Rhein", too, but the Deutschland-Lied, the "Deutschland uber Alles" is great. Now I admit to a certain prejudice here. The music is of course not German-German, but rather Haydn's Kaiserlied, the "Gott Erhalte Franz der Kaiser" of the Habsburg Monarchy. How can one not like an anthem that calls up the Monarchy? I hear it and I can see myself riding with my Kurassier squadron under the black-and-yellow double eagle down the Ringstrasse...
[Yes, I do know the, ummm, *other* version sung at King's College: "Ours is not a happy household/ No one laughs or ever smiles..." That version is great for singing after a few rounds of drinks, and does get to the clever parts, all sung to the Deutschland-Lied: "Sister Sue has just aborted/For the twenty-second time./Uncle Fred has been deported/For a most unusual crime..." The full version is in one of John Masters'wartime memoirs.]