Nathalie wrote:

I am a native English speaker, and I learned it as:

My hat it has three corners,
Three corners has my hat,
And had it not three corners,
It would not be my hat.

I think with that version the rhythm is much better, and closer to the original German. Your current translation is difficult to sing to the same tune.

Regards,
Natalie.

Many thanks to Ulrike Bernhard for contributing this song and to Maguy Cabrol for translating it into French. Thanks also to Monique Palomares for the English translation and the midi music. Many thanks to Lisa Stephan from the German Australian Playschool in Canberra, Australia, for the picture. Thanks to Nathalie for sending the English version of this song!

Vielen Dank!