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by Rudolph Baumbach (1840 - 1905)

Märzenwind
 (Sung text for setting by A. Foote)
 Matches original text
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Kühl war die Märzenluft, heiss war mein Blut.
Wind kam geflogen und nahm mir den Hut. 

Über den Gartenzaun ward er geweht.
Dort hat gefunden ihn Nachbars Margareth,

Hat ihm die Erde geblasen vom Rand
Und ihm ein Veilchen gesteckt unter's Band,

Warf ihn herüber mir ohne ein Wort.
Als ich ihr danken wollt', war sie schon fort. 

Nun muss ich täglich am Gartenzaun steh'n,
Wart' auf den Wind, doch der Wind will nicht weh'n. 

Gretchen auch schau' ich durch's Gartenstacket,
Aber nicht einmal den Blondkopf sie dreht. 

Hilft mir der Wind nicht, so werf' ich hinein
Selber den Hut ihr und steig' hinterdrein!

Note: in many older editions, the spelling of the capitalized word "über" becomes "Ueber", but this is often due to the printing process and not to rules of orthography, since the lower-case version is not "ueber", so we use "Über".

Composition:

    Set to music by Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937), "Märzenwind", op. 39 no. 2, copyright © 1898 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Gesänge, no. 2, Boston, Schmidt, also set in English

Text Authorship:

  • by Rudolph Baumbach (1840 - 1905), "Märzenwind", appears in Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "March wind", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-04-28
Line count: 14
Word count: 104

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