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by Martinus Nijhoff (1894 - 1953)

Het water van de gracht is grijs
Language: Dutch (Nederlands) 
De schipper:
 Het water van de gracht is grijs
 Als de ogen van de schemering --
 Ik neurie steeds op eend're wijs:
 Lieveling, lieveling --

De schippersmaat:
 Ik die de witte zeilen hijs
 Zit op het grote roer en zing --
 Het leven is een vreemde reis,
 Ons hart een donker ding --

De schippersvrouw:
 Ik weet dat ik niet veilig reis
 Als niet de witte vreemdeling
 Voor de boot uit naar 't paradijs
 Over het water ging...

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Text Authorship:

  • by Martinus Nijhoff (1894 - 1953) [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 Piet Ketting (1904 - 1984), "De schipper ", 1935, from Vier gedichten van M. Nijhoff, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Antoine Oomen (b. 1945), "Het schip" [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 74

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