Here comes a dark cloud

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

Es geht eine dunkle Wolk' herein

(Sung text for setting by H. Eisler)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Es geht eine dunkle Wolk' herein,
Mich dünkt, es wird ein Regen sein, 
Ein Regen aus den Wolken,
Wohl in das grüne Gras. 

Und kommst du, liebe Sonn, nit bald,
So weset alls im dunklen Wald, 
Und all die müden Blumen,
Die leiden bittren Tod.

Composition:

Hanns Eisler

Text Authorship:

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , the first stanza first transcribed by Johannes Werlin aus dem Kloster Seeon, first published 1646

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Here comes a dark cloud

(Sung text translation for setting by H. Eisler)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Here comes a dark cloud,
I think it’s going to rain
A downpour from the cloud,
All over the green grass. 

And come, dear Sun, not soon,
So goes everything in the dark wood, 
And all the tired flowers,
Will suffer a bitter death.

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a text in German (Deutsch) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , the first stanza first transcribed by Johannes Werlin aus dem Kloster Seeon, first published 1646
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