Take me with you, captain, on the journey

Chorus: "Take us with you, captain, on the journey,
take us with you to the wide, wide world.
Where goes your journey, captain?"
"To the south pole, that far our money suffices"
"Take us with you, captain, to the yonder,
take us with you into the wide world.
When you'll return, captain,
you'll return gladly to mother's home.
When you'll return gladly
to our homeland, to our home.

In our home, at the Waterkant (verbatim: water brink, means the German North Sea coast)
three miles from the sea
stood our house in the wide, green inland
at the Elbchaussee (a well known street in Hamburg),
we merrily played mate and helmsman,
and even in bed at night we still smelled of tar.
We signed up for the washtub
and wanted out on sea.

Chorus

Last chorus: Take me with you, captain, on the journey,
take me with you, for I now know the world.
Take me with you, captain, on the journey,
to our home, take all our money
Take me with you, captain, from afar
to Hamburg, there I'll disembark.
In the homeland, there glow our stars,
in the homeland, at mother's home,
in the homeland there glow our stars,
take me home with you, captain.

Wolfgang

(before the last chorus a verse is missing saying that many have found riches afar, but too often not happiness, and when they stand at the quay and see a ship with home port of Hamburg, they say:...)