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Kom, bukken til gutten, kom, kalven til mor, kom, mjauende katten i snehvide skor, kom, [andunger]1 gule, kom frem ifra [skjule']2, kom, kyllinger små som næppe kan gå, kom, duerne mine med fjærene fine! Se græsset er vådt; men solen gjør godt, og tidlig, tidlig er det på sommer'n -- men râb på høsten, så kommer'n!
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View text without footnotes1 Peterson-Berger: "ællinger"
2 Grieg: "skjulet"
Text Authorship:
- by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910), "Lokke-lek", appears in En glad gut [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):
- by Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), "Lok", op. 61 (Barnlige sanger) no. 3 (1894), published 1895 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jakob Adolf Hägg (1850 - 1928), "Lokkeleg", op. 44 no. 7 (c1869-1871) [ voice and piano ], from Tolf Sånger och Visor, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Per Lasson (1859 - 1883), "Lokkeleg", published 1899 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder-Album. Fünfzehn Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 3, Leipzig, W. Hansen [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867 - 1942), "Lokkeleg", op. 12 no. 1 (1896), from Marits visor, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wilhelm (Vilhelm) Eugen Stenhammar (1871 - 1927), "Lokkeleg", 1888, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from Tvaa visor ur En glad gut, no. 1, Stockholm, Elkan & Schildknecht [sung text not yet checked]
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 58
Komm, Geißbock zum Buben, komm, Kälbchen zur Kuh, komm, mauzendes Kätzchen auf schneeweißem Schuh! Kommt, Entlein, ihr gelben, kommt aus dem Verstecke, kommt, kleine Küken, kaum laufen ihr könnt, kommt, meine Tauben mit feinem Gefieder! Das Gras ist wohl nass, doch Sonn’ tut euch gut und früh noch, früh noch ist es im Sommer - doch ruft nach dem Herbst, er wird kommen.
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Translation of title "Lokkeleg" = "Lockruf"Text Authorship:
- Translation from Norwegian (Bokmål) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2016 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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Based on:
- a text in Norwegian (Bokmål) by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910), "Lokke-lek", appears in En glad gut
This text was added to the website: 2016-09-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 62