For many lucky years

No vital thing has changed:

I have no pretty girls

As well as no plenty.

In practicing of theft

Never being lazy,

I’d have acquired wealth,

But I drank like crazy.

At times I’m a poor thing,

Longing for a penny;

I have no friends in need,

And I can’t have any.

And I still get along

Playing cards and drinking.

All I’ve performed is wrong,

Wrong from the beginning!

All I’ve performed is wrong,

Wrong from the beginning!