Your body lies frozen in the early morning cold
Because no matches you sold
Around you the matches which you did burn
In this cruel world which you has spurned
They thought you did it to keep warm
As the old year passed and the new on dawned
But we know of the beautiful sights
And know your eternal delight
So your blood is frozen ice
So you leave us to our vice
So your frozen frozen blood
Is all that's left for us to love
Your smile now does cheer
In happiness the new year
And now in heaven you do live
And in your mercy you forgive