Womit kann ich sie netzen | Womit kann ich sie netzen

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

¿Con qué la lavaré?

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER IRI

¿Con qué la lavaré
la [tez]¹ de la mi cara?
¿Con qué la lavaré,
Que vivo mal penada?
Lávanse las casadas
con agua de limones:
lávome yo, cuitada,
con [penas]² y dolores.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Vásquez

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¹ Vásquez: "flor"
² Vásquez: "ansias"

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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

by Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre (1901 - 1999), "¿Con qué la lavaré?", 1948, from Cuatro madrigales amatorios, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Juan Vásquez (c1510 - c1560), "¿Con qué la lavaré?" [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , "With what shall I bathe", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Avec quoi puis-je laver", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Womit kann ich sie netzen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Conas a nífidh mé?", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 34

Womit kann ich sie netzen

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Spanish (Español)

Womit kann ich sie netzen,
die Haut meines Gesichts?
Womit kann ich mich netzen,
ich, die im Kummer lebt?
Essenz von der Zitrone
netzt den Teint der Ehefrauen,
doch ich in meinem Elend
bade in Leid und Schmerz.

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Translation from Spanish (Español) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in Spanish (Español) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2015-07-05
Line count: 8
Word count: 38