Lieb' Liebchen, leg's Händchen [aufs]1 Herze mein; -
Ach, hörst du, wie's [pochet]2 im Kämmerlein?
Da hauset ein Zimmermann schlimm und arg,
Der zimmert mir einen Totensarg.

[Es]3 hämmert und klopfet bei Tag und bei Nacht;
[Es]3 hat mich schon längst um den Schlaf gebracht.
Ach! sputet Euch, Meister Zimmermann,
Damit ich [balde]4 schlafen kann.

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Note: first titled "Der Zimmermann"; later titled "Holzmeyer"
¹ Medtner: "auf" [sic]
² Lange-Müller: "pocht"
³ Lange-Müller: "Er"
⁴ Lachner: "bald"; Franz: "nun balde"

Text Authorship:

• by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, written 1817, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Junge Leiden, in Lieder, no. 4, first published 1827 [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 Károly Aggházy (1855 - 1918), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 31 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kiesler [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Oskar Alwin (1891 - 1945), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", from Sechs Lieder, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Blagoje Bersa (1873 - 1934), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 66 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl August Bertelsmann (1811 - 1861), "Meister Zimmermann" [ alto or baritone and piano ], from Vier Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gerard Bunk (1888 - 1958), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 39 (Vier Lieder : nach Texten verschiedener Dichter) no. 3, published c1911 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 57(31) (1879) [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Claussnitzer (1867 - 1924), "Der Zimmermann", op. 13 (Drei ernste Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Claussnitzer (1867 - 1924), "Der Zimmermann", op. 2 (Sieben kleine Chöre für vier Männerstimmen) no. 7, published 1896 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Loebel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen", from Liederkreis, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Dessauer (1798 - 1876), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze " [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Heinrich Döring (1834 - 1916), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 15 no. 5, published 1869 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Dichtungen von Heinrich Heine, für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 5, Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]
• by Otto Dresel (1826 - 1890), "Lieb' Liebchen, leg's Händchen", 1846, published 1892 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Otto Johann Anton Dütsch (1823 - 1863), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze " [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Gustav Ebell , "Lied: von Heine", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Anton Florian Eckert (1820 - 1879), "Lied", op. 28 (Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1872 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Rachel van Embden (1870 - ?), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 4 (Drei Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 9 (Acht Gesänge) no. 5, published 1858 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Gottlieb Erfurt (1807 - 1856), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", from Deutsche Lieder (Zweite Sammlung), no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Richard Farber (b. 1945), "Lieb' Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze mein" [ voice and piano ], from Buch der Lieder - Junge Leiden - Lieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Lieb' Liebchen!", op. 17 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 3, published 1853 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Wilhelm Fried , "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 4 no. 5, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Heine-Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 5, Wien, Haslinger [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jan Karol Gall (1856 - 1912), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 1 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
• by Josef Gauby (1851 - 1932), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 14 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Hainauer [sung text not yet checked]
• by Giovanni Battista Gordigiani (1795 - 1871), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 16 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eduard August Grell (1800 - 1886), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen", op. 1 (Fünf Gesänge) no. 2, published 1837 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Trautwein [sung text not yet checked]
• by Rich. Grelling , "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 4 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Paez [sung text not yet checked]
• by Christian Friedrich Grimmer (1798 - 1850), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 5 (Acht Lieder von Heinrich Heine) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustav Haug (1871 - 1956), "Das pochende Herz", op. 7 (Drei Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Hellmesberger, jun. (1855 - 1907), "Lieb' Liebchen", published 1875 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 4, Wien, Schreiber  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Hennig (1819 - 1873), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 83 (Vier Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hans Heinrich XIV, Graf Bolko von Hochberg (1843 - 1926), "Meister Zimmermann", op. 39 (Drei Lieder von Heine) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865 - 1950), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 15 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5, published 1892 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Bernhard Jestl (b. 1960), "Lieb Liebchen", 1986 [ tenor and chamber ensemble ], from Heine-Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Karl) Emil Kauffmann (1836 - 1909), "Lieb Liebchen leg's Händchen", op. 10 (Vier Lieder / 4 Gedichte) no. 2 (1868) [ low voice and piano ], Stuttgart, Zumsteeg [sung text not yet checked]
• by B. Kreutzer , "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 9 (Vier Lieder von Heine) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken (1810 - 1882), "Lied", op. 17 (Fünf Lieder für eine Sopran- oder Tenorstimme mit Pianoforte und ein 3stimmiger Kanon) no. 2 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Der Zimmermann", op. 49 (Sechs deutsche Gesänge) no. 5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1850 - 1926), "Der Zimmermann", op. 27 no. 3 (1885), published <<1890 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs ernste Lieder von Heinrich Heine und Paul Heyse, no. 3, Copenhagen, Hofmusikhandelens Forlag [sung text not yet checked]
• by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", published 1888, from Album of 8 German Songs, no. 6, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
• by Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801 - 1878), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze", 1870-1880 [ voice and piano ], from Sånger och Visor vid Pianoforte. Efterlemnade Sånger, no. 196 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernst Löwenberg , "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", from Acht Lieder von Heine, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Fritz Marcks , "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 10 (Drei Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Lieb' Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze mein", op. 12 (Drei Gedichte von Heine = Три стихотворения Гейне (3 stikhotvorenija Geine)) no. 1 (1907), published 1907 [ voice and piano ], also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Arnold Mendelssohn (1855 - 1933), "Der Zimmermann", from Lieder und Gesänge, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Der Zimmermann", op. 339 (Acht Lieder nach Heinrich Heine) no. 7 (2022) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ivan Alexandrovich Pomazansky (1848 - 1918), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Emma Raddatz , "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen", op. 1 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Glas [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alfred Reisenauer (1863 - 1907), "Lieb' Liebchen, leg's Händchen", published 1896, from Traurige Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Ries (1846 - 1932), "Meister Zimmermann", op. 8 (6 Lieder für Sopran) no. 4, published 1869 [ soprano and piano ], Bielefeld, Sulzer [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georg Rijken (1863 - 1948), "Lieb Liebchen", op. 4 ([Vier] Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1885 [ voice and piano ], Rotterdam, Lichtenauer [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jakob Rosenhain (1813 - 1894), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 21 (Sechs Lieder ) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis Samson , "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", published 1873 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. II. Reihe, Heft V, no. 3, Dresden, Arnold [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernst Schauss (1882 - 1953), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", from Sieben Lieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Maria Elisabeth, Gräfin von Schlik zu Bassano und Weisskirchen (1790 - 1855), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis Schlottmann (1826 - 1905), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 10 (Sieben Lieder) no. 3, published 1859 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Lieb' Liebchen", op. 24 no. 4 (1840), published 1840 [ voice and piano ], from Liederkreis von Heinrich Heine, no. 4, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Johan August Söderman (1832 - 1876), "Lieb Liebchen leg's Händchen auf's Herze mein", published 1859, from Heidenröslein : Liederzyklus nach Heine, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alfred Steinmann (flourished c1884-1906), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 18 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Hannover, Nagel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Julius Stern (1820 - 1883), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 14 (Deutsche Gesänge), Heft 2 no. 2, published 1843 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Trautwein und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl (Karl) Stiehl (1826 - 1911), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 2 (Lieder und Gesänge) no. 4 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Korstiaan Stougie (1908 - 1988), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 1 (124 liederen : 1925-1969) no. 76 (1936), published 1972 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Korstiaan Stougie (1908 - 1988), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 1 (124 liederen : 1925-1969) no. 89 (1947) [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Karl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert (1811 - 1891), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 12 (Sechs deutsche Lieder) no. 3, published 1834 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
• by Th. Trendelenburg , "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder von H. Heine) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (1811 - 1886), "Holzmeyer", op. 16 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5, published 1834 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: F. Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
• by Frank Valentin Van der Stucken (1858 - 1929), "Lieb' Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze mein", op. 5 (Neun Gesänge) no. 3 (1879), published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner, also set in Dutch (Nederlands) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ignaz J. Waghalter (1882 - 1949), "Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze ", op. 7 (Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Max Zenger (1837 - 1911), "Der Zimmermann", op. 45 (Acht Lieder für mittlere Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1884 [ medium voice and piano ], München, Aibl  [sung text not yet checked]

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

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Lief liefje, voel 't hart eens", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Dear sweetheart, lay your hand on my heart", copyright ©
• ENG English [singable] (Daniel Platt) , "My dear, lay your hand here", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Chère bien‑aimée, pose tes petites mains sur mon cœur", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Amore mio, posa la mano sul mio cuore", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-10-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 54

Daj ruchku mne! k serdczu prizhmi eyo, drug!
Chu! sly'shish` li, chto tam za stuk?
Tam zloj grobovshhik v ugolochke sidit
I grob dlya menya masterit.

Stuchit bez umolku i den` on i noch`…
Usnul by' — pri stuke ne smoch`.
E`j, master! uzh vremya rabotu konchat`!
Pora mne, ustalomu, spat`!