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by Matthias Claudius (1740 - 1815)

Pasteten hin, Pasteten her
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Pasteten hin, Pasteten her,
  Was kümmern uns Pasteten?
Die [Kumme]1 hier ist auch nicht leer
Und schmeckt so gut [als bonne chère
  Von Fröschen und von Kröten]2.

Und viel Pastet und Leckerbrot
  [Verdirbt nur]3 Blut und Magen.
Die Köche kochen lauter Not,
[Sie]4 kochen uns viel eher tot;
  Ihr Herren, laßt [euch]5 sagen!

Schön rötlich die Kartoffeln sind,
  Und weiß wie Alabaster;
[Sie dau'n]6 sich lieblich und geschwind
  Und sind für Mann und [Weib]7 und Kind,
[Geschweige denn für Schwein und Rind]8
  Ein rechtes Magenpflaster!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Bachlund •   G. Graben-Hoffmann •   J. Zumsteeg 

J. Zumsteeg sets stanza 3

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Confirmed with Matthias Claudius Sämtliche Werke. Gedichte. Prosa. Briefe in Auswahl, Berlin, Darmstadt, Wien: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1958, pages 199-200.

1 Graben-Hoffmann: "Schüssel"
2 Graben-Hoffmann: "wie aus dem Meer/ die Austern und Lampreten"
3 Graben-Hoffmann: "Verderben"
4 Graben-Hoffmann: "Und"
5 Graben-Hoffmann: "euch's"
6 Graben-Hoffmann: "Verdau'n"
7 Graben-Hoffmann: "Frau"
8 omitted by Bachlund and Graben-Hoffmann.

Text Authorship:

  • by Matthias Claudius (1740 - 1815), 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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Kartoffellied", 2009 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffmann (1820 - 1900), "Pastetenlied", op. 107 no. 10, published c1883 [ voice and piano ], from Frühlingsstimmen: Neue Liederspende für die Jugend, no. 10, Dresden: L. Hoffarth [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760 - 1802), "Kartoffellied", published 1803, stanza 3 [ voice and piano ], from Kleine Balladen und Lieder, Heft V, no. 27 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Gary Bachlund) , "The potato song", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2009-03-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 83

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