It was spring in Munich on the Rhine I was lonesome for the love I've left behind So I stole love happiness my heart could find From a German girl there on the River Rhine She thought I was free right from the start I said love words like an actor plays his part Till one day I knew I meant then from the heart I'd found fraulein love there on the River Rhine In the cold and lonely River Rhine Lies my little darling my fraulein When she learned I had a wife From the bank she took her life I lost her to the lonely River Rhine When at last I had to leave her side It was hard for me to tell her how I'd lied The morning papers told how she had died Then was searching for her in the River Rhine In the cold and lonely River Rhine...