Ik had een notenboompje | Ik had een notenboompje

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Lidy van Noordenburg

The little nut‑tree

Language: English

Our translations: DUT

I had a little nut-tree, 
[Nothing]¹ would it bear
But a silver nutmeg 
And a golden pear;

The King of Spain's daughter
[Came]² to visit me,
And all for the sake 
Of my little nut-tree.

Her dress was made of crimson,
Jet black was her hair,
She asked me for my nutmeg
And my golden pear.

I said, "So fair a princess
Never did I see,
I'll give you all the fruit
From my little nut tree."

[I danced o'er the water,
I danced o'er the sea,
And all the birds in the air
Couldn't catch me.]³

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• G. Bush

G. Bush sets stanzas 1-2

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Confirmed with Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, 1955.

¹ Bush, Real: "And nothing"
² Bush: "She came"
³ Real:

I danced over the sea 
But all the birds of the air,
They couldn’t catch me.

Text Authorship:

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , written <<1797 [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 Geoffrey Bush (1920 - 1998), "The little nut-tree", stanzas 1-2, from Songs of wonder, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , "Ik had een notenboompje", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Lidy van Noordenburg

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 100

Ik had een notenboompje

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the English

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Ik had een notenboompje 
waar niet meer dan
een zilveren walnoot 
en gouden peer aan groeiden.

De Spaanse Koningsdochter 
kwam mij bezoeken
alleen om mijn notenboompje 
te zien.

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Ik danste over de zee maar 
alle vogels ten spijt;
ze konden mij niet krijgen.

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• G. Bush

Text Authorship:

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a text in English from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , written <<1797
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This text was added to the website: 2023-06-10
Line count: 20
Word count: 44