Kleiner Lasse | Die Welt, sie ist so groß, so groß

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by Zachris Topelius (1818 - 1898)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Lasse liten

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: ENG FIN GER

Världen är så stor, så stor,
Lasse, Lasse liten!
Större än du nånsin tror,
Lasse, Lasse liten! 

Det är hett och det är kallt,
Lasse, Lasse liten! 
Men Gud råder överallt,
Lasse, Lasse liten! 

Många mänskor leva där,
Lasse, Lasse liten! 
Lycklig den som Gud har kär,
Lasse, Lasse liten! 

När Guds ängel med dig går,
Lasse, Lasse liten! 
Ingen orm dig bita få,
Lasse, Lasse liten! 

Säg, var trives du nu mest,
Lasse, Lasse liten? 
Borta bra men hemma bäst,
Lasse, Lasse liten!

Text Authorship:

by Zachris Topelius (1818 - 1898) [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 Selim Palmgren (1878 - 1951), "Lasse liten" [ men's chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Lasse liten", op. 37 no. 2 (1902), published 1906 [ voice and piano ], from Fem sånger, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (David McCleery) , "Little Lasse", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Lasse pieni", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Kleiner Lasse", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 84

Kleiner Lasse

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Swedish (Svenska)

Die Welt, sie ist so groß, so groß,
Lasse, kleiner Lasse!
Größer, als du je gedacht,
Lasse, kleiner Lasse!

Es ist heiß und es ist kalt,
Lasse, kleiner Lasse!
Aber Gott herrscht überall,
Lasse, kleiner Lasse!

Viele Menschen leben hier,
Lasse, kleiner Lasse!
Glücklich sind, die Gott hat lieb,
Lasse, kleiner Lasse!

Gott wird seinen Engeln weisen,
Lasse, kleiner Lasse,
dass dich keine Schlangen beißen,
Lasse, kleiner Lasse!

Sag, wo du dich am wohlsten fühlst,
Lasse, kleiner Lasse!
Zu Hause, wo’s am schönsten ist,
Lasse, kleiner Lasse!

Text Authorship:

Translation from Swedish (Svenska) 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 Swedish (Svenska) by Zachris Topelius (1818 - 1898)
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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-12
Line count: 20
Word count: 87