Bowl away! bowl away! Fast as you can; He who can fastest bowl, He is my man! Up and down, round about,— Don't let it fall; Ten times, or twenty times, Beat, beat them all!
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Confirmed with Under the Window. Pictures & Rhymes for Children by Kate Greenaway, London and New York, Frederick Warne & Co., page 36.
Text Authorship:
- by Catherine "Kate" Greenaway (1846 - 1901), no title, appears in Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children, first published 1879 [author's text checked 1 time 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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (1845 - 1904) , no title, appears in Am Fenster in Bildern und Versen von Kate Greenaway ; composed by Ernst Frank.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2016-05-30
Line count: 8
Word count: 35
Schlaget den Reifen, Lustige Schaar! Lauft um die Wette Hurtig fürwahr! Wer ist gefallen? Helft ihm nur auf, Schnell wieder lachen, Weiter im Lauf!1
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Am Fenster in Bildern und Versen von Kate Greenaway, der deutsche Text von Käthe Freiligrath-Kroeker, München: Theodor Stroefers Kunstverlag, [1880], page 42.
1 Frank adds:Immer geschwinder Geht's nun im Lauf, Fallt nicht, ihr Kinder, Passet nur auf! Reifen, nun eil' dich Ohn' Rast und Ruh', Nimmer verweil' dich, Sonst schlag' ich zu!
Text Authorship:
- by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (1845 - 1904), no title, appears in Am Fenster in Bildern und Versen von Kate Greenaway [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Catherine "Kate" Greenaway (1846 - 1901), no title, appears in Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children, first published 1879
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ernst Frank (1847 - 1889), "Schlaget den Reifen", op. 16 no. 5, published 1882 [ vocal duet for soprano and alto with piano ], from Fünf Duette aus "Am Fenster" in Bildern und Versen von Kate Greenaway für Sopran und Alt mit Pianoforte, no. 5, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Beat the hoop", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2020-05-30
Line count: 8
Word count: 25