Dá mbeifeá liom | Dá mbeifeá liom, d’imeoinn le háthas

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Translation © by Gabriel Rosenstock

Bist du bei mir

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE IRI ITA SPA

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Bist du bei mir, geh' ich mit Freuden
zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh'.
Ach, wie vergnügt wär' so mein Ende,
es drückten deine lieben [schönen]¹ Hände
mir die getreuen Augen zu!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• G. Bachlund • G. Stölzel

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¹ omitted by Bachlund and Stölzel.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, first published 1725 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Bist du bei mir", 2010 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Gerard Bunk (1888 - 1958), "Bist du bei mir", subtitle: "Arie im alten Stile", op. 20b (1907/45?) [ mezzo-soprano or soprano and strings or string quintet ] [sung text checked 1 time]
misattributed to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) and by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690 - 1749), "Bist du bei mir", <<1718, from Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach, note: the misattribution to Bach was probably due to his including the song in his Anna Magdalena Songbook; the piece was given the catalogue number BWV 508 no. 25 before the misattribution was discovered [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "If you are with me", copyright ©
ENG English (Gary Bachlund) , "If you be with me", written 2010, copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Si tu es avec moi", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Dá mbeifeá liom", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Davide Bocelli) , "Se tu resti al mio fianco", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Aminta Iriarte) , "Si estás conmigo", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 5
Word count: 33

Dá mbeifeá liom

Language: Irish (Gaelic) after the German (Deutsch)

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Dá mbeifeá liom, d’imeoinn le háthas
Chun bás agus síocháin [a] fháil.
Sea, dea-chríoch chugam, bheinn an-sásta
Is do dhá lámh ghléigeal’ go grámhar
Ar mo shúile ar uair mo bháis.

Text Authorship:

Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2018 by Gabriel Rosenstock.
This author's work falls under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons license.

Gabriel Rosenstock. Contact: grosenstock04 (AT) gmail (DOT) com
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , first published 1725
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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-22
Line count: 5
Word count: 31