C                              G7
It was spring in Munich on the Rhine

                                        C
I was lonesome for the love I've left behind

                             C7          F
So I stole love happiness my heart could find

       G7                             C
From a German girl there on the River Rhine

 
                                      G7
She thought I was free right from the start

                                          C
I said love words like an actor plays his part

                                 C7       F
Till one day I knew I meant then from the heart

    G7                                     C
I'd found Fraulein love there on the River Rhine

 
       F                     C
In the cold and lonely River Rhine

G7                        C
Lies my little darling my Fraulein

         F
When she learned I had a wife

         C
From the bank she took her life

  G7                           C
I lost her to the lonely River Rhine

 
                                G7
When at last I had to leave her side

                                       C
It was hard for me to tell her how I'd lied

                        C7          F
The morning papers told how she had died

          G7                             C
They were searching for her in the River Rhine

 
       F                     C
In the cold and lonely River Rhine

G7                        C
Lies my little darling my Fraulein

         F
When she learned I had a wife

         C
From the bank she took her life

  G7                           C
I lost her to the lonely River Rhine