Montagskind | Montagskind, Dienstagskind

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Monday's child

Language: English

Our translations: GER

Monday's child, Tuesday's child,
Wednesday's child, Thursday's child,
Friday's child, Saturday's child,
Sunday's child.

Monday's child is fair of face, 
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe, 
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving, 
Saturday's child works hard for his living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay. 

Monday's child, Tuesday's child,
Wednesday's child, Thursday's child,
Friday's child, Saturday's child,
Sunday's child.

Text Authorship:

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) [author's text not yet checked 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 John Milford Rutter, CBE (b. 1945), "Monday's child", published 1974 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Five Childhood Lyrics, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Montagskind", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website: 2015-01-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 83

Montagskind

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Montagskind, Dienstagskind,
Mittwochskind, Donnerstagskind,
Freitagskind, Samstagskind,
Sonntagskind.

Montagskind, schön anzusehn,
Dienstagskind, in Anmut schön,
Mittwochskind trägt großes Leid,
Donnerstagskinds Weg noch weit,
Freitagskind gibt gerne her,
Samstagskind, sein Los ist schwer,
und das Kind, geboren am Tage des Herrn,
ist reizend und gut und lächelt gern.

Montagskind, Dienstagskind,
Mittwochskind, Donnerstagskind,
Freitagskind, Samstagskind,
Sonntagskind.

Text Authorship:

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a text in English from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
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This text was added to the website: 2015-01-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 53