Don't go | Don’t go, don’t go away

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Sára Gutvill

Ne menj el!

Language: Hungarian (Magyar)

Our translations: ENG

Ne menj el, el ne menj,
Ne hagyjál itt engem!
Mert ha itt hagysz engem,
Bánatos lesz lelkem.
Bánatos lélekkel,
Szomorodott szívvel,
Egyedül hogy legyek,
Nálad nélkül éljek?
Világon míg élek,
Soha nem felejtlek,
Visszajössz, vissza még,
S velem maradsz mindég.

Text Authorship:

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945), "Ne menj el!", Sz. 103 no. 8, BB. 111 no. 8 (1935) [ children's chorus and women's chorus ], from 27 két- és háromszólamú kórusmű gyermek- és nőikarra (27 Two- and Three-part Choruses, for children and female voices), no. 8, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by L. Weinhold ; composed by Béla Bartók.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Sára Gutvill) , "Don't go", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2008-09-27
Line count: 12
Word count: 41

Don't go

Language: English after the Hungarian (Magyar)

Don’t go, don’t go away,
Don’t leave me here!
Because if you leave me here,
My soul will turn sorrowful.
With a sorrowful soul,
With a saddened heart,
Alone how shall I be,
Live without you?
Till I live on this world,
I will never forget you.
You will come back once
And stay with me forever.

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a text in Hungarian (Magyar) from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
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This text was added to the website: 2017-07-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 57