Prinz Sisi und die Frau Mama
See originalPrinz Sisi und die Frau Mama,
Die tranken ihren Kaffee,
Und als Klein-Ännchen kam vorbei,
Da riefen beide: O je!
Prinz Sisi sprach zur Frau Mama:
Welch' holde Creatur,
Wo kommt sie her, wo geht sie hin
Ach, wenn ich's wüsste nur!
Die Frau Mama zu Sisi sprach:
Sie ist ein Menschenkind
Mit Augen, Nase, Mund und Stirn
Wie andre Menschen sind!
Und ist dies Kind ein Menschenkind,
So will ich sie zur Frau;
Sie fehlt mir noch zu meinem Glück,
Ich weiss es jetzt genau!
Klein-Ännchen sah die beiden an,
Klein-Ännchen sagt kein Wort,
Sie schüttelt ihren Lockenkopf
Und läuft dann eilends fort.
Composition:
Text Authorship:
Based on:
See other settings of this text.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Prince Sisi and his Madam Mother", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs
[Senior Associate Editor], Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2020-05-31
Line count: 20
Word count: 113
Prince Sisi and his Madam Mother,
Were drinking their coffee,
And when little Annie passed by
They both cried: Oh dear!
Prince Sisi said to his Madam Mother:
What a lovely creature,
Where does she come from, where is she going
Ah, if I only knew it!
Madam Mother said to Sisi:
She is a human child
With eyes, nose, mouth and brow
Like other people are!
And if this child be a human child,
Then I want her as my wife;
She is what is still missing for my happiness,
I now know it exactly!
Little Annie looked at the two of them,
Little Annie said not a word,
She shook her head of curls
And ran away hastily.
