Hinter der Donaubrück'
Steht [ein schön]1 Häusele,
Sitzt [ein schön]1  Mägdle drin,
Singt als wie [ein Zeisle.]2

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Confirmed with Die deutschen Volksbücher, Gesammelt und ihrer ursprünglichen Echtheit wiederhergestellt von Karl Simrock, Neunter Band, Frankfurt a.M.: Druck und Verlag von Heinr. Ludw. Brönner, 1856, page 163.

¹ Jenner: " a schön's "
² Jenner: "a Zeisle / La, la, la, la, la, la."

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• from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , no title [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 Gustav Jenner (1865 - 1920), "Hinter der Donaubrück'", op. 6 no. 5, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Neun Kinderlieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 5, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Benjamin Wilhelm Mayer, as W. A. Rémy.

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