Ich hab' mich ergeben

I give myself is the beginning of 1820 by Hans Ferdinand Massmann sealed and published under the title vows patriotic folk song and students.

In the period after the Second World War was in the Federal Republic of Germany, in the absence of a German national anthem until the adoption of the Song of the Germans on ceremonial occasions often I've found myself singing, such as the constitutive session of the first Bundestag. The radio Germany used the melody of the third line as an interval signal.

The national anthem of the Federated States of Micronesia Patriots of Micronesia uses the same melody. My English text is closely based on the result of I 've.

Melody

The song uses the melody of the song in 1819 resulting Burschenschaft union We had built a stately house from August Daniel von Binzer. It was also used by Johannes Brahms as a leitmotif in his Academic Festival Overture.

Text

The third verse is often omitted because of their religious commitment to Martin Luther, as well as in the Allgemeiner Deutscher Kommersbuch ( see figure at right ).

1 I found myself With heart and with hand, You land full of love and life My German fatherland! 2 My heart is entglommen, Facing true to you You land of woo and pious, You gorgeous Hermann country! 3 You land rich in glory, Where Luther arose, For your people Tume Empire I my heart and hand!

4 Oh God do, raise My young heart's blood For fresh freud'gem life, For its free devout courage! 5 Will hold and believe devoutly to God and free wants fatherland you stay eternally fixed and faithful. 6 Let me acquire power in heart and in hand to live and die for holy Fatherland!