El noi a la seva mare | Casa’m jove, oh mare meva!

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by Therese Albertine Luise von Jacob (1797 - 1870), as Talvj

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Der Knabe an die Mutter

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Serbian (Српски)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE

Jung vermähle mich, o [meine]¹ Mutter!
Eh der Bart ganz das Gesicht mir einfaßt,
Und sich Kinn und Schnurrbart mir verschlingen.
Möchten sonst die Mädchen von mir sagen,
Wenn sie einmal mich den Müttern zeigen:
["Mutter, sieh' aus dem Gesträuch den Bären!"
Oder: "Sieh' den Hasen aus dem Kraute!"]²

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• M. Reger

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¹ omitted by Reger
² Reger:

"Mutter, sieh' aus dem Gesträuch den Bären,
o Mutter, sieh' den Hasen aus dem Kraute!"

Text Authorship:

by Therese Albertine Luise von Jacob (1797 - 1870), as Talvj, "Der Knabe an die Mutter", appears in Volkslieder der Serben, first published 1835 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Serbian (Српски) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Момак моли мајку", appears in Српске народне пјесме - скупио ис и на свијет издао Вук Стеф. Караџић (Srpske narodne pjesme), page 380, Poem 528
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Der Knabe an die Mutter", op. 75 (Achtzehn Gesänge) no. 3 (1903) [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El noi a la seva mare", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The young lad to his mother", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le garçon à sa mère", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Peter Schoene

This text was added to the website: 2006-03-30
Line count: 7
Word count: 49

El noi a la seva mare

Language: Catalan (Català) after the German (Deutsch)

Casa’m jove, oh mare meva!
Abans que la barba em cobreixi tot el rostre
i que el mentó i el bigoti m’engloteixin.
Altrament, les noies podrien dir de mi,
quan em mostrin a llurs mares:
“Mare guaita, un ós del matossar!”
O bé: “Guaita, un conill de l’herbatge!”

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2014 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Therese Albertine Luise von Jacob (1797 - 1870), as Talvj, "Der Knabe an die Mutter", appears in Volkslieder der Serben, first published 1835
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Serbian (Српски) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Момак моли мајку", appears in Српске народне пјесме - скупио ис и на свијет издао Вук Стеф. Караџић (Srpske narodne pjesme), page 380, Poem 528
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2014-12-24
Line count: 7
Word count: 48