I will float away from you | Hey down the Blue Danube

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Patrick John Corness

A já ti uplynu

Language: Moravian (Moravština)

Our translations: ENG

A já ti uplynu 
preč po Dunajíčku!
A já chovám doma 
takovú udičku,
co na ní ulovím 
kdejakú rybičku.
A já se udělám 
divokým holubem,
a já budu lítat 
pod vysokým nebem.
A já chovám doma 
takové havrany,
co mně vychytajú 
kdejaké holuby!

A já se udělám 
tú velikú vranú,
a já ti uletím 
na uherskú stranu.
A já chovám doma 
takovútu kušu,
co ona vystřelí 
všechněm vranám dušu.
A já se udělám 
hvězdičkú na nebi,
a já budu lidem 
svítiti na zemi.
A sú u nás doma 
takoví hvězdáři,
co vypočítajú 
hvězdičky na nebi.
A ty přec budeš má,
lebo mi tě, Pán Bůh dá!

Text Authorship:

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , from a collection of Moravian folk songs compiled by František Sušil [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 Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "A já ti uplynu", op. 29b no. 1, B. 60 no. 1 (1876) [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ], from Moravské dvojzpevy II. rada, no. 1, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Josef Srb-Debrnov (1836 - 1904) ; composed by Antonín Dvořák.

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

ENG English [singable] (John Bernhoff) , "Watch, Love..."
ENG English (Patrick Corness) , "I will float away from you", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Kurt Honolka) , "Die Flucht", copyright ©

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 32
Word count: 106

I will float away from you

Language: English after the Moravian (Moravština)

Hey down the Blue Danube 
I’ll float away from you. 
Well, I keep in my home 
a fishing line, you’ll see 
this line will catch for me 
ev’ry little fishie. 
Well, I’ll become a dove, 
a wild dove, flying high. 
I’ll fly up high, I’ll fly 
around high in the sky. 
At home I keep ravens,
ravens that will catch me,
that will catch me for sure 
wild doves, wild doves galore. 

Well, then I will become 
a crow, a great crow too; 
and I will fly away
to Hungary from you. 
Well, here at home I keep 
a bow with arrows plumed, 
they’ll surely fell all crows,
all souls of crows are doomed. 
Well, I’ll become a star 
up in the sky at night, 
for people down below 
on earth a shining light. 
Well, sky-watchers count stars 
at home; they can espy 
all starlets shining high 
above in the night sky.
And you’ll of course be mine, 
for it’s God’s will, it’s God’s will.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Moravian (Moravština) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , from a collection of Moravian folk songs compiled by František Sušil
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This text was added to the website: 2023-06-27
Line count: 32
Word count: 165