Just as a short exercise and food for thought:

Death come easy if you come before your time
Death come easy to a young man in his prime
They put a gun in my hand
Said, Fight for the freedom of your land
Death come easy to a young man in his prime (Harvey Andrews)

now a retranslation of the (a?) German version (sticking as close to the German as possible even if as a result the English sounds awkward)

Death make it easy for me, if you come before your time
Death make it easy for me. My way in life is still long.
With the weapon in the hand
I am sent in this and that land
Death make it easy for me, for I am not ready yet.

Quite close in parts and further away from the original than any English variant could be. I guess the decision to say yes to a translation must be a hard decision for a true wordsmith. One loses a bit of the control one has in one's own language. But that is maybe a different theme.

Wolfgang