Discover the story of the song > Ein Toter fährt gern Ringelspiel – Angizia

The lyrics describe a character named the Werkelmann who is sitting on a boat in a swampy graveyard, ringing a bell and swinging his head. He is joined by a bucktoothed woman and they both watch as the General of hell realizes the Werkelmann has left his grave. The lyrics continue to describe the Werkelmann's confusion and the chaos that ensues as he rides a carousel with the dead. In the end, he falls off and his head splits open, but he continues to whisper and wonders where his head is, while the bucktoothed woman tells him that death has left him alive.

The lyrics are about a strange man called the Werkelmann who is sitting on a boat in a swampy graveyard and playing with a bell. A woman with buck teeth comes to watch him and they see that the general of hell realizes that the Werkelmann has left his grave. The lyrics also describe how the Werkelmann rides a carousel with the dead and eventually falls off and his head splits open, but he keeps whispering and wonders where his head is, while the bucktoothed woman tells him that death has left him alive.