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 
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