Song | Yes, I am overjoyed because of you!

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by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ja, überselig hast du mich gemacht!

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ja, überselig hast du mich gemacht!
Der allerlängste Tag, er reicht nicht hin,
Und [viel zu kurz]¹ ist jeder Traum der Nacht,
Zu denken, wie ich überselig bin.
Ich fühl's, um dieser Wonne ganz zu leben,
Muß Gott mir noch ein zweites Leben geben.

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Confirmed with Buch der Liebe von Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Breslau, bei Georg Philipp Aderholz, 1836, page 67.

¹ Ekert: "viel kurz"

Text Authorship:

by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), no title, appears in Buch der Liebe, no. 109, Breslau, bei Georg Philipp Aderholz, first published 1836 [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 Karl Anton Florian Eckert (1820 - 1879), "Ja, überselig hast du mich gemacht!", op. 29 (Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1873 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Bote & Bock [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Song", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Peter Donderwinkel , Melanie Trumbull

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Song

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Yes, I am overjoyed because of you!
The very longest day is not enough,
And much too short is every dream of the night,
To think about how overjoyed I am;
I feel it, in order to live fully for this bliss
God must give me yet another life.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), no title, appears in Buch der Liebe, no. 109, Breslau, bei Georg Philipp Aderholz, first published 1836
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This text was added to the website: 2014-12-10
Line count: 6
Word count: 49