Petit truc | Noia, ets esvelta i pura

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by Julius Wolff (1834 - 1910)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Kleine List

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG

Mädel, du bist schlank und schier
Und gesund gewachsen,
Deiner Zöpfe Wünschelzier
Dünkt mich eitel flachsen.

Deines weißen Nackens Bug
Und den stolzen Rücken
Staun' ich an schon lang' genug
Und das mit Entzücken.

Aber könnt'st dich umzudrehn
Dich nicht bald entschließen?
Möchte dich von vorn zu sehn
Auch einmal genießen.

Wer mir stets den Rücken kehrt,
Läßt mich übel trauen,
Ob es wohl der Mühe werth,
Sein Gesicht zu schauen.

Hui! gelungen ist die List,
Die dich wenden machte,
Sieh mal an, wie schön du bist!
Schöner, als ich dachte.

Ja, man muß es nur verstehn,
Zweifeln hilft und Schelten,
Mädchen wollen unbesehn
Nie für häßlich gelten.

Text Authorship:

by Julius Wolff (1834 - 1910), "Kleine List", appears in Singuf: Rattenfängerlieder, first published 1881 [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 Johannes Doebber (1866 - 1921), "Kleine List", op. 17 (Vier Lieder für 1 tiefe Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1890 [ low voice and piano ], Berlin, Simon [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Kleine List", op. 4 no. 8 (1882/83), published 1884 [ voice and piano ], from Hunold Singuf. Rattenfängerlieder nach Julius Wolff's Dichtungen, no. 8, Braunschweig, H. Litolff [sung text not yet checked]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Petit truc", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Little trick", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-02-25
Line count: 24
Word count: 108

Petit truc

Language: Catalan (Català) after the German (Deutsch)

Noia, ets esvelta i pura
i en bona salut,
les teves encisadores trenes
em semblen de pur lli.

El teu blanc bescoll
i la teva superba esquena
els admiro de fa prou temps
i això amb delit.

Però no podries decidir-te 
d’un cop a girar-te?
M’agradaria tenir encara el plaer
de veure’t pel davant.

Qui sempre em gira l’esquena
em fa de mal confiar
de si valdria la pena
de veure el seu rostre.

Ui! Ha reeixit el truc
que t’ha fet girar,
i guaita, que bella ets!
Més bella del que pensava.

Sí, només s’ha d’entendre
que dubtar i bescantar ajuden
a que les noies, sense haver-les vist,
no vulguin mai passar per lletges.

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Julius Wolff (1834 - 1910), "Kleine List", appears in Singuf: Rattenfängerlieder, first published 1881
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This text was added to the website: 2024-03-02
Line count: 24
Word count: 115