Wenn ich ganz allein | Wenn ich ganz allein

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

När jag för mig själv

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: GER

När jag för mig själv
i mörka skogen går,
tänker jag på vännen,
som jag aldrig får.

Tåren börjar rinna,
hjärtat slå,
aldrig kan man glömma den,
man en gång hållit å'.

Ängar, berg och dal och skog
med fåglar små,
blåa himmelen
med klara stjärnor på,

allt vad havet gömmer,
pärlor och koraller,
svanedun av skum
och klaraste kristaller,

gräs och blommor all
och lindelöv på kvist,
allting gåve jag för vännen,
som jag mist,
lilla vännen kär
från barndomsdagar.

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 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867 - 1942), "När jag för mig själv", op. 5 no. 1 (1892), from Fyra visor i svensk folkton, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Wenn ich ganz allein", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 81

Wenn ich ganz allein

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

Wenn ich ganz allein
durch Waldesdunkel geh,
denk’ ich an den Liebsten,
den ich nie bekam.

Alsbald fließt die Träne
und das Herz, es pocht,
nimmermehr vergisst man den,
der einst der Liebste war.

Auen, Berg und Tal und Wald
mit den Vögelein,
den blauen Himmel,
die hellen Sterne,

alles, was das Meer verbirgt,
Perlen und Korallen,
Schwanendaunen aus Schaum,
lichteste Kristalle,

alle Gräser, Blumen,
Lindenlaub am Zweig,
alles gab ich für den Liebsten,
den ich hab verloren,
kleiner, liebster Freund
aus Kindheitstagen.

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Translation from Swedish (Svenska) 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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This text was added to the website: 2016-11-29
Line count: 22
Word count: 83