by
Ludwig Jacobowski (1868 - 1900)
Language: German (Deutsch)
Und kommt des Wegs ein Musikant,
Die Fiedel auf dem Rücken,
So will ich ihn durch's weite Land
Zu meiner Liebsten schicken.
Und wenn die ganze Stadt erwacht,
Geh fiedeln auf die Gassen!
Du darfst in dieser Sommernacht
Kein Mädchen schlafen lassen.
Der Wächter bleibt verwundert stehn,
Kein Brunnen soll mehr rauschen.
Der Mond vergißt das Weitergehn,
Um deinem Klang zu lauschen!
Und hört es auch die ganze Stadt,
Du spielst nur für die Eine;
Die beide Fenster offen hat,
Die ist es, die ich meine . . .
Composition:
Set to music by Rudolf S. Cahn-Speyer (1881 - 1940), "Ständchen", op. 5 no. 6, published 1912 [ voice and piano ], Cöln am Rhein: Verlag Tischer & Jagenberg
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Serenade", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
And if a musician should come along,
With his fiddle upon his back,
Then I would send him through the wide land
To my beloved.
And though the whole city wakens,
Go fiddle upon the streets!
In this summer night, you may not
Let not a single maiden sleep.
The watchman is to stop bemused,
No fountain is to flow.
The moon is to forget to travel on
In order to listen to your sounds!
And though the entire city hears it,
You are playing for only one person;
She who has both windows open,
It is she whom I mean . . .
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